Piero della Francesca
Italian Early Renaissance Painter, ca.1422-1492 Italian painter and theorist. His work is the embodiment of rational, calm, monumental painting in the Italian Early Renaissance, an age in which art and science were indissolubly linked through the writings of Leon Battista Alberti. Born two generations before Leonardo da Vinci, Piero was similarly interested in the scientific application of the recently discovered rules of perspective to narrative or devotional painting, especially in fresco, of which he was an imaginative master; and although he was less universally creative than Leonardo and worked in an earlier idiom, he was equally keen to experiment with painting technique. Piero was as adept at resolving problems in Euclid, whose modern rediscovery is largely due to him, as he was at creating serene, memorable figures, whose gestures are as telling and spare as those in the frescoes of Giotto or Masaccio. His tactile, gravely convincing figures are also indebted to the sculpture of Donatello, an equally attentive observer of Classical antiquity. In his best works, such as the frescoes in the Bacci Chapel in S Francesco, Arezzo, there is an ideal balance between his serene, classical compositions and the figures that inhabit them, the whole depicted in a distinctive and economical language. In his autograph works Piero was a perfectionist, creating precise, logical and light-filled images (although analysis of their perspective schemes shows that these were always subordinated to narrative effect). However, he often delegated important passages of works (e.g. the Arezzo frescoes) to an ordinary, even incompetent, assistant.

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Piero della Francesca Madonna and Child with Saints oil painting


Madonna and Child with Saints
1472-74 Oil on panel, 248 x 170 cm
Painting ID::  32469
Piero della Francesca
Madonna and Child with Saints
1472-74 Oil on panel, 248 x 170 cm
   
   
     

Piero della Francesca Discovery and Proof of the True Cross oil painting


Discovery and Proof of the True Cross
c. 1460 Fresco, 356 x 747 cm
Painting ID::  32470
Piero della Francesca
Discovery and Proof of the True Cross
c. 1460 Fresco, 356 x 747 cm
   
   
     

Piero della Francesca Madonna of Senigallia oil painting


Madonna of Senigallia
early 1470s, Panel, 61 x 53,5 cm
Painting ID::  32471
Piero della Francesca
Madonna of Senigallia
early 1470s, Panel, 61 x 53,5 cm
   
   
     

Piero della Francesca Portrait of Battista Sforza oil painting


Portrait of Battista Sforza
1465-66 Panel, 47 x 33 cm
Painting ID::  32472
Piero della Francesca
Portrait of Battista Sforza
1465-66 Panel, 47 x 33 cm
   
   
     

Piero della Francesca Adoration of the Holy Wood and the Meeting of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba oil painting


Adoration of the Holy Wood and the Meeting of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
c. 1452 Fresco, 336 x 747 cm
Painting ID::  32473
Piero della Francesca
Adoration of the Holy Wood and the Meeting of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
c. 1452 Fresco, 336 x 747 cm
   
   
     

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     Piero della Francesca
     Italian Early Renaissance Painter, ca.1422-1492 Italian painter and theorist. His work is the embodiment of rational, calm, monumental painting in the Italian Early Renaissance, an age in which art and science were indissolubly linked through the writings of Leon Battista Alberti. Born two generations before Leonardo da Vinci, Piero was similarly interested in the scientific application of the recently discovered rules of perspective to narrative or devotional painting, especially in fresco, of which he was an imaginative master; and although he was less universally creative than Leonardo and worked in an earlier idiom, he was equally keen to experiment with painting technique. Piero was as adept at resolving problems in Euclid, whose modern rediscovery is largely due to him, as he was at creating serene, memorable figures, whose gestures are as telling and spare as those in the frescoes of Giotto or Masaccio. His tactile, gravely convincing figures are also indebted to the sculpture of Donatello, an equally attentive observer of Classical antiquity. In his best works, such as the frescoes in the Bacci Chapel in S Francesco, Arezzo, there is an ideal balance between his serene, classical compositions and the figures that inhabit them, the whole depicted in a distinctive and economical language. In his autograph works Piero was a perfectionist, creating precise, logical and light-filled images (although analysis of their perspective schemes shows that these were always subordinated to narrative effect). However, he often delegated important passages of works (e.g. the Arezzo frescoes) to an ordinary, even incompetent, assistant.

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