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Piero della Francesca

1415–1492 · Early Renaissance

Piero della Francesca (c. 1415 – 12 October 1492) was an Italian painter, mathematician and geometer of the Early Renaissance, nowadays chiefly appreciated for his art. His painting is characterized by its serene humanism, its use of geometric forms and perspective. Wikipedia

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Calm, geometric figures, pale clear light, exact perspective and stillness, as if time stopped.

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Works

• “Flagellation of Christ”, 1459 — Galleria Nazionale delle Marche
• “The Resurrection”, 1463 — Museo Civico di Sansepolcro
• “Diptych of Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza”, 1465 — Uffizi Gallery
• “Madonna del Parto”, 1455
• “The Baptism of Christ”, 1448 — National Gallery
• “Madonna and Child with Saints, Angels and Federico da Montefeltro (San Bernardino Altarpiece)”, 1472 — Pinacoteca di Brera
• “Madonna di Senigallia”, 1476 — Galleria Nazionale delle Marche
• “Polyptych of the Misericordia”, 1460–1462 — Museo Civico di Sansepolcro
• “The Nativity”, 1480s — National Gallery
• “Portrait of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta”, 1450–1451 — Louvre
• “Saint Jerome and a Donor”, 1440 — Gallerie dell'Accademia
• “Constantine's Dream”, 1458 — San Francesco, Arezzo
• “Saint Julian the Hospitaller”, 1454 — Museo Civico di Sansepolcro
• “The torture of the Jew”, 1452 — San Francesco, Arezzo
• “Hercules”, 1465 — Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
• “Mary Magdalene”, 1460 — Arezzo Cathedral
• “Polyptych of Perugia”, 1469 — National Gallery of Umbria
• “Portrait of Battista Sforza”, 1474 — Uffizi Gallery
• “The Queen of Sheba”, 1452 — San Francesco, Arezzo
• “Virgin and Child Enthroned with Four Angels”, 1475 — Clark Art Institute
• “The Battle of Constantine”, 1458 — San Francesco, Arezzo
• “Stories of the Virgin from Sant'Egidio” — Cenacolo di Sant'Apollonia Museum
• “The Crucifixion”, 1461 — Frick Collection
• “Saint Louis of Toulouse”, 1460 — Museo Civico di Sansepolcro
• “Saint Jerome penitent”, 1450 — Gemäldegalerie
• “Polyptych of Saint Augustine”, 1454
• “The Prophet Ezekiel”, 1458 — San Francesco, Arezzo
• “Saint Augustin”, 1454 — National Museum of Ancient Art
• “Saint Michael”, 1454 — National Gallery
• “Annunciation”, 1452 — San Francesco, Arezzo
• “Battle between Heraclius and Chosroes”, 1458 — San Francesco, Arezzo
• “Saint Nicholas of Tolentino”, 1456 — Museo Poldi Pezzoli
• “Exaltation of the Cross”, 1458 — San Francesco, Arezzo
• “Death and Burial of Adam”, 1452 — San Francesco, Arezzo
• “St. John the Evangelist”, 1454 — Frick Collection
• “Discovery and Proof of the True Cross”, 1458 — San Francesco, Arezzo
• “An Augustinian Nun (Saint Monica)”, 1454 — Frick Collection
• “Portrait of Federico da Montefeltro”, 1474 — Uffizi Gallery
• “Augustinian Saint”, 1454 — Frick Collection
• “Saint Apollonia”, 1454 — Samuel H. Kress Collection

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