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 Sts Andrew and Bernardino oil


Sts Andrew and Bernardino
Painting ID::  91676
Sts Andrew and Bernardino
between 1445(1445) and 1462(1462) Medium oil and tempera on panel Dimensions Height: 108 cm (42.5 in). Width: 90 cm (35.4 in). cyf
   
   
     

Piero della Francesca Sts Sebastian and John the Baptist oil


Sts Sebastian and John the Baptist
Painting ID::  91677
Sts Sebastian and John the Baptist
1445(1445) and 1462(1462) Medium oil and tempera on panel Dimensions Height: 108 cm (42.5 in). Width: 90 cm (35.4 in). cyf
   
   
     

Piero della Francesca Polyptych of the Misericordia oil


Polyptych of the Misericordia
Painting ID::  91680
Polyptych of the Misericordia
between 1445(1445) and 1462(1462) Medium oil and tempera on panel Dimensions Height: 273 cm (107.5 in). Width: 330 cm (129.9 in). cyf
   
   
     

Piero della Francesca The Flagellation oil


The Flagellation
Painting ID::  98302
The Flagellation
circa 1455(1455) Medium oil and tempera on panel cyf
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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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