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Francesca, Piero della (c.1415-92)

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Name
Francesca, Piero della (c.1415-92)
Nationality
Italian
Biography
One of the most important artists of the early Italian Renaissance. Piero's work is characterized by a rational, calm, monumental painting style, that was important in the Italian early Renaissance, an age in which art and science were linked through the writings of Leon Battista Alberti and others. He used the rules of perspective and ideal figures composed of geometric forms to create narrative and devotional paintings, especially in fresco. Italian painter.
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Assets (197 in total)

View of an Ideal City, or The City of God, c. 1480-1490 (oil on panel)
Baptism of Christ, 1450 (egg tempera on panel)
The Resurrection, c.1463 (fresco)
Federigo da Montefeltro Duke of Urbino, c.1465 (tempera on panel)
Portraits of Duke Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza, c.1465 (tempera on panel)
The Flagellation of Christ, c.1463-4 (tempera on panel)
The Madonna of Mercy, central panel from the Misericordia Altarpiece, 1445 (tempera on panel) (detail of 95884)
The Madonna del Parto, c.1450-70 (fresco) (post restoration) (see also 75561, 172472 and 169194)
Nativity, early 1480s (oil on poplar)
The Queen of Sheba Worshipping the Wood of the True Cross and The Reception of the Queen of Sheba by King Solomon (c.1015-977) from the Legend of the True Cross cycle, completed 1464 (fresco)
Sigismondo Malatesta (oil on panel)
The Dream of Constantine, from The Legend of the True Cross cycle, completed 1464 (fresco)
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