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Artist a Day:  Piero Della Francesca

Artist a day! PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA  (1416-1492)   Piero Della Francesca, initially called Piero di Benedetto, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance.

Fresco on wall, 225 x 200 cm, 1460

The Resurrection

Della Francesca's Works

Fresco on wall, 203 x 206 cm, 1460

Madonna del Parto

Della Francesca's Works

To modern historians and art lovers, he was also comprehended as a mathematician and geometer.

Tempera on panel, 59 x 81.3 cm, 1450

The Flagellation of Christ

Della Francesca's Works

Tempera on panel, 167 x 116 cm, 1450

Baptism of Christ

Della Francesca's Works

Piero Della Francesca is chiefly admired for his art.

Oil on panel, 1454

St. Augustine

Della Francesca's Works

60 x 200 cm, 1470

Ideal City

Della Francesca's Works

Italian Artist Piero della Francesca was one of the most influential Old Masters in Early Renaissance art.

Tempera on panel, 1472

Federico de Montefeltro

Della Francesca's Works

He was a specialist in geometry and mathematics and a leading frontiersperson of painting techniques such as linear perspective and foreshortening.

Oil on wood, 124.4 x 122.6 cm, 1475

Nativity

Della Francesca's Works

Piero della Francesca was born in Borgon San Sepolcro in Umbria, Italy around 1420 CE.

Oil on panel, 108 x 78 cm, 1475

Madonna and Child Attended by Angels

Della Francesca's Works

His dad died before he was born, and so he evolved known as 'of Francesca', after his mother.

Oil on panel, 108 x 78 cm, 1475

Madonna and Child Attended by Angels

Della Francesca's Works

Certainly many painters who do not use perspective have also been the object of praise; however, they were praised with faulty judgement by men with no knowledge of the value of this art. ” 

Famous Quotes by  Piero Della Francesca

1483

Portrait of a boy

Della Francesca's Works

Painting is nothing but a representation of surfaces and solids foreshortened or enlarged, and put on the plane of the picture in accordance with the fashion in which the real objects seen by the eye appear on this plane.” 

Famous Quotes by  Piero Della Francesca

Tempera on panel, 248 x 170 cm, 1472

Madonna and Child with Saints

Della Francesca's Works

Fresco on wall, 329 x 747 cm, 1466

 Battle between Heraclius and Chosroes

Della Francesca's Works

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