Flood and Waters Subsiding

Scenes from the Life of Noah are a pair of frescoes painted in 1436–1440 (or around 1447) by Paolo Uccello in the Chiostro Verde (Green Cloister) of Santa Maria Novella in Florence. Like the other frescoes in that cloister, they deal with stories from the Book of Genesis and are painted in monochrome tempera with terra verde as pigment, that referred to the authority of antique bronze sculpture, and gave the cloister its name.

The upper work in the semicircle of the lunette depicts The Flood and The Waters Receding (215 × 510 cm), with two symmetrical views of Noah's ark, which seem to be a single scene due to the common vanishing point in the upper center. This is one of the earliest examples of linear perspective in Renaissance art. The larger rectangular work beneath shows The Sacrifice and Drunkenness of Noah (277 × 540 cm). Ham in profile under the much admired pergola with grapes …

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