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Piero della Francesca
Adoration of the Holy Wood and the Meeting of Solomon and Queen of Sheba
c.1452; Fresco,
San Francesco, Arezzo
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Piero della Francesca
Portrait of Sigismondo Malatesta (mk05)
Wood,17 1/4 x 13 1/2''(44 x 34 cm)Entered the Louvre in 1978
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Piero della Francesca
Senigallia Madonna (mk08)
c.,1460-1475
Tempera on wood
61x53.5cm
Urbino,Galleria Nazionale
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Piero della Francesca
The Baptism of Christ (mk08)
C.1440-1450
Tempera on wood
168x116cm
London ,National Gallery
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Piero della Francesca
Double portrait fo Federigo da Montefeltro (mk08)
c.1470
Tempera on panel,
47x33cm
Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi
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Piero della Francesca
The Discovery of the Wood of the True Cross and The Meeting of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (mk08)
1452
Fresco.
360x750cm
Arezzo,San Francesco
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Piero della Francesca
Federigo da Montefeltro and his Wife Battista Sforza (mk45)
Tempera on two panels
each 47x33cm
Florence
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Piero della Francesca
Resurrection
mk68
Fresco
Sansepolcro
Civice Museum
1463-1465
ltaly
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Piero della Francesca
Portrait of the Duke and Duchess of Montefeltro
mk68
Tempera on wood
18 1/2x13
Florence
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Piero della Francesca
St.Simon the apostle
mk76
Painted between 1454 and 1469.
Tempera on panel
52 3/4x24 1/2in
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Piero della Francesca
Details of St.Simon the apostle
mk76
Painted between 1454 and 1469.
Tempera on panel
52 3/4x24 1/2in
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Piero della Francesca
Augustinian monk
mk76
Date unknown,
Tempera on panel
15 3/4x11 1/8in
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Piero della Francesca
Augustinian nun
mk76
Date unknown
Tempera on panel
15 1/4x11in
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Piero della Francesca
The Crucifixion
mk76
Date unknown
Tempera on panel
14 3/4x16 3/16in
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Piero della Francesca
The Death of Adam, detail of Adam and his Children
c. 1452
Fresco, 390 x 747 cm
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Piero della Francesca
Polyptych of St Anthony
1460-70
Panel, 338 x 230 cm
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Piero della Francesca
The Penance of St. Jerome
1450
Panel, 51 x 38 cm
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Piero della Francesca
St. Julian
1455-60
Fresco, 130 x 105 cm
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Piero della Francesca
Head of an Angel
1452
Fresco, 55 cm
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Piero della Francesca
Head of an Angel
1460
Fresco, 70 cm
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| Piero della Francesca
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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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