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 The Flagellation fo Christ oil


The Flagellation fo Christ
Painting ID::  55948
The Flagellation fo Christ
mk247 c.1460,oil and tempera on panel,23x32 in,58x82 cm,galleria nazionale delle marche,urbino,ltaly
   
   
     

Piero della Francesca The Resurrection of Christ oil


The Resurrection of Christ
Painting ID::  55951
The Resurrection of Christ
mk247 c.1463,fresco,88.675x78.75 in,225x200cm,pinacoteca civica,sansepolcro,ltaly
   
   
     

Piero della Francesca Portraits of Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza oil


Portraits of Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza
Painting ID::  55952
Portraits of Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza
mk247 1465-66,tempera on panel,15.5x13 in,47x33 cm,uffizi,florence,ltaly
   
   
     

Piero della Francesca Brera madonna oil


Brera madonna
Painting ID::  55956
Brera madonna
mk247 1472-74,oil on panel,99x67 in,241x172 cm,pinacoteca di brera,milan,ltaly
   
   
     

Piero della Francesca battista sforza.hustru till federico da montefeltro oil


battista sforza.hustru till federico da montefeltro
Painting ID::  56650
battista sforza.hustru till federico da montefeltro
mk248 battista sforza tillborde den barskande atten i milano. hon fodde federico sju dottrar ocb en son, ocb dog vid sonens fodelse. de flesta bistoriler ansr att portrattet ett i en diptuk maladdes postumt. bakgrunden visar urbino ocb den omgivande landsbygden.
   
   
     

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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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