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When did Piero della Francesca paint The Baptism of Christ?
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Piero della Francesca
The Flagellation of Christ, tempera on wood panel by Piero della Francesca, late 1450s; in the National Gallery of the Marches, Urbino, Italy.
The Baptism of Christ by Piero della Francesca belongs to his early formative period, which dates to before 1451. The painting was likely intended as the central panel for an altarpiece for the Pieve of Sansepolcro.1