Piero della Francesca

Piero della Francesca (, , ; ;  – 12 October 1492) was an Italian Renaissance painter from the Early Renaissance. He was also a mathematician and geometer.Vasari, Giorgio, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, 1568. Piero della Francesca is famous for his art. His paintings usually used lots of humanism, geometry, perspective. His most famous work is the cycle of frescoes The History of the True Cross.


Famous works

Polyptych of the Misericordia (1445–62) – Tempera and oil on panel, 273 x 330 cm, Museo Civico Sansepolcro
The Baptism of Christ () – Tempera on panel, 168 × 116 cm, National Gallery, London
St. Jerome in Penitence () – Tempera on panel, 51 × 38 cm, Staatliche Museen, Berlin
St. Jerome and a Donor (Girolamo Amadi) (1451) – Tempera and oil on panel, 49 × 42 cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta Praying in Front of St. Sigismund (1451) – Fresco (transferred to canvas), 257 x 345 cm, Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini
Portrait of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta () – Tempera and oil on panel, 44.5 × 34.5 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris
The History of the True Cross () – Fresco cycle, Basilica of San Francesco, Arezzo
The Flagellation of Christ () – Tempera on panel, 58.4 x 81.5 cm, Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino
Polyptych of Saint Augustine (1460–70) – Tempera and oil on panels, dispersed in several museums
Resurrection () –Fresco, 225 × 200 cm, Museo Civico Sansepolcro
Hercules () –Fresco (detached), 151 × 126 cm, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
St. Mary Magdalene () – Fresco, 190 × 180 cm, Cathedral, Arezzo
Madonna del Parto (1459–67) – Detached fresco, 260 × 203 cm, Chapel of the cemetery, Monterchi
The Nativity () – Oil on panel, 124.5 × 123 cm, National Gallery, London
Polyptych of Saint Anthony () – Oil on panel, 338 × 230 cm, Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia
Brera Madonna, i.e. Montefeltro Altarpiece, (1472–74) – Oil on panel, 248 × 170 cm, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
Diptych of the Count and Countess of Urbino, Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza – Oil on panel, each 47,4 × 33,6 cm, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
Madonna di Senigallia () – Oil on panel, 67 × 53.5 cm, Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino

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Further reading

Banker, James R., Piero della Francesca: Artist and Man, Oxford University Press, 2014, 
Berenson, Bernard, Piero della Francesca or The Ineloquent in Art, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1954.
Chieli, Francesca, "La grecità antica e bizantina nell'opera di Piero della Francesca", Firenze, 1993.
Christiansen, Keith, Piero Della Francesca: Personal Encounters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2013. With contributions by Roberto Belluci, Cecilia Frosinini, Anna Pizzati, and Chiara Rossi Scarzanella. . 
Clark, Kenneth, Piero della Francesca. Phaidon Publishers. First ed. 1951, second ed. 1969.
Cole, Bruce, Piero della Francesca: Tradition and Innovation in Renaissance Art, HarperCollins Publishers, 1991. .
Damisch, Hubert, Un souvenir d'enfance par Piero della Francesca, Edition du Seuil, Paris, 1997; Engl. ed.: A Childhood Memory by Piero della Francesca, Stanford University Press, 2007. .
Ginzburg, Carlo, Indagini su Piero, Eunaudi, Torino, 1982; Engl. ed.: The Enigma of Piero: Piero della Francesca, Verso, 1985, new edition 2002. .
Hendy, Philip, Piero Della Francesca and the Early Renaissance, New York: Macmillan, 1968, and London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968.
Israëls, Machtelt Brüggen, Piero della Francesca and the Invention of the Artist, Reaktion Books, 2020. .
 Kaiser, Walter, "The Noble Dreams of Piero", The New York Review of Books, March 21, 2013. Review of Silver, Nathaniel E., Piero della Francesca in America and the exhibition at the Frick Collection that it accompanied.
 Lavin, Marilyn Aronberg, Piero della Francesca: San Francesco, Arezzo, New York: George Braziller, 1994.
Lightbown, Ronald, Piero della Francesca, Abbeville Press, 1992. .
Longhi, Roberto, Piero de' Franceschi, Rom, 1927; Engl. ed. translated by Leonard Penlock: Piero della Francesca, F. Warne & Co., London and New York, 1930; new ed. with expansions until 1962, 1963 translation by David Tabbat: Sheep Meadow, 2002. .
Maetzke, Anna Maria, ed., Piero della Francesca: The Legend of the True Cross in the Church of San Francesco in Arezzo, with Giovanna Melandri, Stefano Casciu, and Carla Corsi. Skira, 2000. .
Maetzke, Anna Maria; Bertelli, Carlo, eds., Piero della Francesca: The Legend of the True Cross in the Church of San Francesco in Arezzo, texts by Marilyn Aronberg Lavin et al. Skira, 2001. .
Manescalchi, Roberto, L'Ercole di Piero, tra mito e realtà,(ParteI), Grafica European Center of Fine Art (Terre di Piero), Firenze, 2011. 
Manescalchi, Roberto, "Piero alla corte dei Pichi", in Studi e Documenti Pierfrancescani II, Sansepolcro 2014. 
Meiss, Millard, "A Documented Altarpiece by Piero della Francesca", The Art Bulletin, Vol. 23 (March 1941), pp. 53-68; reprinted with alterations and additions in Millard Meiss, The Painter's Choice: Problems in the Interpretation of Renaissance Art, Harper and Row, 1976, pp. 82-104.  
Pacioli, Luca, Libellus de quinque corporibus regularibus, corredato della versione volgare [fac-sim du Codice Vat. Urb. Lat. 632]; eds. Cecil Grayson,... Marisa Dalai Emiliani, Carlo Maccagni. Firenze, Giunti, 1995.  3 vol. (68 ff., XLIV-213, XXII-223 pp.). 
Piero's Archimedes, [fac-sim du Codice Riccardiano 106 par Piero della Francesca]; eds. Roberto Manescalchi, Matteo Martelli, James Banker, Giovanna Lazzi, Pierdaniele Napolitani, Riccardo Bellè. Sansepolcro, Grafica European Center of Fine Arts e Vimer Industrie Grafiche Italiane, 2007. 2 vol. (82 ff., XIV-332 pp. English, French, Spanish, German, Italian and Arabic). .
Pope-Hennessy, John, The Piero della Francesca Trail, Walter Neurath Memorial Lectures, Thames and Hudson, London, 1991; new ed. expanded with Aldous Huxley, "The Best Picture", The Little Bookroom, 2002. .

Silver, Nathaniel E., Piero della Francesca in America: From Sansepolcro to the East Coast, with essays by James R. Banker and Machtelt Israëls, and an appendix by Giacomo Guazzini and Elena Squillantini. New York: Frick Collection, 2013. Catalogue for exhibition of the same name listed in "External links".

Other websites

"The Art of Piero della Francesco", Lecture by Machtelt Brüggen Israëls at The Frick Collection, November 20, 2019.
"Piero della Francesca in America", exhibition at The Frick Collection, February 12, 2013 to May 19, 2013.
"Featured Catalogue—Interview with the Curator: Keith Christiansen", Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 5, 2014.

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