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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 polyptych of saint anthony oil painting artist


Piero della Francesca polyptych of saint anthony oil painting artist

polyptych of saint anthony
Painting ID::  64966
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perugia, galleria nazionale dell'umbria oil and tempera on poplar panel 338 by 230cm se

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Piero della Francesca polyptych of saint anthony oil painting artist


Piero della Francesca polyptych of saint anthony oil painting artist

polyptych of saint anthony
Painting ID::  64967
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the annunciation

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Piero della Francesca polyptych of saint anthony oil painting artist


Piero della Francesca polyptych of saint anthony oil painting artist

polyptych of saint anthony
Painting ID::  64968
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the miracle of st anthony se

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Piero della Francesca polyptych of saint anthony oil painting artist


Piero della Francesca polyptych of saint anthony oil painting artist

polyptych of saint anthony
Painting ID::  64969
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the stigmatisation of st francis se

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Piero della Francesca nativity oil painting artist


Piero della Francesca nativity oil painting artist

nativity
Painting ID::  64970
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london, national gallery oil on panel 124.5 by 123cm se

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