Piero della Francesca Art
Piero della Francesca (1420 - 1492), an Italian artist, one of the greatest artists of the Early Renaissance. To contemporaries, he was known as a mathematician and geometer as well as an artist, though now he is mainly appreciated for his art. His painting art is characterized by its serene humanism and its use of geometric forms, particularly in relation to perspective and foreshortening.
He appears to have studied art in Florence, but his career was spent in other cities, among them Rome, Urbino, Ferrara, Rimini, and Arezzo. He was strongly influenced by Masaccio and Domenico Veneziano. His solid, rounded figures are derived from Masaccio, while from Domenico he absorbed a predilection for delicate colors and scenes bathed in cool, clear daylight. To these influences he added an innate sense of order and clarity. He wrote treatises on solid geometry and on perspective, and his works reflect these interests. He conceived of the human figure as a volume in space, and the outlines of his subjects have the grace, abstraction, and precision of geometric drawings.
Almost all of Piero's works are religious in nature - primarily altarpieces and church frescoes. The undisputed high point of his career was the series of large frescoes Legend of the True Cross, done for the Church of San Francesco in Arezzo, in which he presents scenes of astonishing beauty, with silent, stately figures fixed in clear, crystalline space. These frescoes are characterized by broad contrasts - both in subject matter and in treatment - that create a powerful effect of grandeur.
Perspective and geometry figure both prominently and subtly in all Piero's works. He liked to organise large, plain masses of color in patterns which suggest an underlying geometrical scheme. That gives his paintings the unfinished look which moderns like. He made a positive virtue of the light palette which the use of old painting methods forced on artists. There are always large areas of white or near-white in his works, the skies are big, light and sunny, and this pleasing radiance, combined with the absence of meticulous clutter, makes his paintings enormously attractive to our eyes.
Piero's artistic work became a milestone in the development of art and an essential benchmark for his successors. The monumental quality of his figures, the perspectival construction of the pictorial space and the spiritual calm of his compositions led, throughout Italy, to the final surmounting of the Gothic style and prepared the way for the soaring artistic achievements of High Renaissance in Italy at the beginning of the 16th century.
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Contents
- St. Jerome and a Donor, 1450
- The Penance of St. Jerome, 1450
- Sigismondo Malatesta before St. Sigismund, 1451
- Adoration of the Holy Wood (Detail 2), 1452
- Meeting of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (Detail 3), 1452
- St. Julian, 1458
- Baptism of Christ, 1460
- Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, 1460
- St. Louis of Toulouse, 1460
- Resurrection, 1463
- Resurrection (Detail 2), 1463
- Resurrection (Detail), 1463
- Polyptych of Misericordia, Crucifixion, 1464
- Polyptych of Misericordia, Madonna of Mercy, 1464
- Polyptych of Misericordia, St. John the Evangelist and St. Bernardine of Siena, 1464
- Polyptych of Misericordia, St. Sebastian and St. John the Baptist, 1464
- Madonna del Parto, 1465
- Madonna del Parto (Detail 2), 1465
- Madonna del Parto (Detail), 1465
- Annunciation, 1466
- Annunciation (Detail), 1466
- Battle between Constantine and Maxentius (Detail), 1466
- Battle between Constantine and Maxentius (Left), 1466
- Battle between Constantine and Maxentius (Right), 1466
- Battle between Heraclius and Chosroes (Detail 2), 1466
- Battle between Heraclius and Chosroes (Detail 3), 1466
- Battle between Heraclius and Chosroes (Detail 4), 1466
- Battle between Heraclius and Chosroes (Detail 5), 1466
- Battle between Heraclius and Chosroes (Detail 6), 1466
- Battle between Heraclius and Chosroes (Detail 7), 1466
- Battle between Heraclius and Chosroes (Detail), 1466
- Battle between Heraclius and Chosroes (Left), 1466
- Battle between Heraclius and Chosroes (Right), 1466
- Burial of the Wood, 1466
- Constantine's Dream, 1466
- Constantine's Dream (Detail 2), 1466
- Constantine's Dream (Detail), 1466
- Death of Adam (Detail), 1466
- Death of Adam (Left), 1466
- Death of Adam (Right), 1466
- Defeat of the King, 1466
- Discovery and Proof of True Cross (Detail 2), 1466
- Discovery and Proof of True Cross (Detail 3), 1466
- Discovery and Proof of True Cross (Detail 4), 1466
- Discovery and Proof of True Cross (Detail 5), 1466
- Discovery and Proof of True Cross (Detail 6), 1466
- Discovery and Proof of True Cross (Detail 7), 1466
- Discovery and Proof of True Cross (Detail 8), 1466
- Discovery and Proof of True Cross (Detail 9), 1466
- Discovery and Proof of True Cross (Detail), 1466
- Discovery and Proof of True Cross (Left), 1466
- Discovery and Proof of True Cross (Right), 1466
- Exaltation of the Cross, 1466
- Exaltation of the Cross (Detail 2), 1466
- Exaltation of the Cross (Detail 3), 1466
- Exaltation of the Cross (Detail), 1466
- St. Mary Magdalene, 1466
- The Prophet, 1466
- The Prophet 2, 1466
- The Queen of Sheba in Adoration of the Wood and the Meeting of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (Detail 2), 1466
- The Queen of Sheba in Adoration of the Wood and the Meeting of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (Detail 3), 1466
- The Queen of Sheba in Adoration of the Wood and the Meeting of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (Detail 4), 1466
- The Queen of Sheba in Adoration of the Wood and the Meeting of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (Detail 5), 1466
- The Queen of Sheba in Adoration of the Wood and the Meeting of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (Detail 6), 1466
- The Queen of Sheba in Adoration of the Wood and the Meeting of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (Detail), 1466
- The Queen of Sheba in Adoration of the Wood and the Meeting of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (Left), 1466
- The Queen of Sheba in Adoration of the Wood and the Meeting of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (Right), 1466
- Torment of the Jew, 1466
- Torment of the Jew (Detail), 1466
- Archangel Michael, 1469
- Augustinian Saint, 1469
- Polyptych of St. Augustine, St. Nicholas of Tolentino, 1469
- St. Augustine, 1469
- St. John the Evangelist, 1469
- St. Monica, 1469
- Flagellation, 1470
- Flagellation (Detail 2), 1470
- Flagellation (Detail), 1470
- Polyptych of Sant'Antonio, Madonna and Child, 1470
- Polyptych of Sant'Antonio, Miracle of Sant'Antonio, 1470
- Polyptych of Sant'Antonio, Miracle of St. Elizabeth, 1470
- Polyptych of Sant'Antonio, St. Anthony of Padua and St. John the Baptist, 1470
- Polyptych of Sant'Antonio, St. Francis and St. Elizabeth, 1470
- Polyptych of Sant'Antonio, Stigmatization of St. Francis, 1470
- Allegorical Triumph of Battista Sforza, 1472
- Allegorical Triumph of Federico da Montefeltro, 1472
- Diptych Portrait of Battista Sforza, 1472
- Diptych Portrait of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, 1472
- Madonna and Child with Saints (Montefeltro Altarpiece), 1474
- Montefeltro Altarpiece (Detail 2), 1474
- Palo Montefeltro (The Madonna with Childs, Angels, Saints and Federico da Montefeltro) (Detail), 1474
- Madonna and Child Enthroned with Four Angels, 1475
- Madonna of Senigallia (Madonna and Child), 1485
- The Nativity, 1485
- The Nativity (Detail), 1485
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