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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 the legend of the true cross, detail oil on canvas


the legend of the true cross, detail
the legend of the true cross, detail
Painting ID::  64887
  the adoration of the holy wood and the queen of sheba recceived by solomon se
  the adoration of the holy wood and the queen of sheba recceived by solomon se

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Piero della Francesca the legend of the true cross, detail oil on canvas


the legend of the true cross, detail
the legend of the true cross, detail
Painting ID::  64888
  the adoration of the holy wood and the queen of sheba recceived by solomon se
  the adoration of the holy wood and the queen of sheba recceived by solomon se

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Piero della Francesca the legend of the true cross, detail oil on canvas


the legend of the true cross, detail
the legend of the true cross, detail
Painting ID::  64889
  the queen of sheba recceived by solomon se
  the queen of sheba recceived by solomon se

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Piero della Francesca the legend of the true cross, detail oil on canvas


the legend of the true cross, detail
the legend of the true cross, detail
Painting ID::  64890
  the queen of sheba recceived by solomon se
  the queen of sheba recceived by solomon se

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Piero della Francesca the legend of the true cross, detail oil on canvas


the legend of the true cross, detail
the legend of the true cross, detail
Painting ID::  64891
  the queen of sheba recceived by solomon se
  the queen of sheba recceived by solomon se

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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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