Piero della Francesca (c. 1414 to 1492) was an Italian painter, mathematician and geometer of the Early Renaissance, valued today chiefly for his art. His painting is marked by serene humanism and a distinctive use of geometric forms and perspective, and his most famous work is the fresco cycle The History of the True Cross in the Basilica of San Francesco in the Tuscan town of Arezzo.
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BirthplaceSansepolcro, Republic of Florence 1 Death PlaceSansepolcro, Republic of Florence 1 Active From Year TrainingApprenticed to the local painter Antonio di Giovanni d'Anghiari 1 Connections
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Early Renaissance painter.
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Piero della Francesca ( PYAIR-oh DEL-ə fran-CHESK-ə, US also - frahn-; Italian: [ˈpjɛːro della franˈtʃeska] ; né Piero di Benedetto de' Franceschi; c. 1415 – 12 October 1492) was an Italian painter, mathematician and geometer of the Early Renaissance, nowadays chiefly appreciated for his art.
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c. 1415
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Sansepolcro, Republic of Florence
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12 October 1492
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12 October 1492
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Italian painter, mathematician and geometer
Early years section
He was most probably apprenticed to the local painter Antonio di Giovanni d'Anghiari
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His painting is characterized by its serene humanism, its use of geometric forms and perspective.
Early life
because in documents about payments it is noted that he was working with Antonio in 1432 and May 1438.
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The Resurrection is a fresco painting by the Italian Renaissance master Piero della Francesca, painted in the 1460s in the Palazzo della Residenza in the town of Sansepolcro, Tuscany, Italy. Piero was commissioned to paint the fre
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