The pose of the woman in On the roof, Taylor Square echoes the sleeping figures in the early Italian Renaissance painter, Piero della Francesca’s fifteenth-century fresco The Resurrection. The tilt of her head and closed eyes suggest she is in her own dream world. The composition also presents the simple yet effective use of the mathematical formula of the golden mean. An arrangement of rectangles forms the backdrop to the sunbathing woman while the black clothing draped between her legs is wryly positioned at the focal point dictated by the ratio.
