Piero della Francesca

**Piero della Francesca** (, , ; ;  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*.

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## Famous works
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**Polyptych of the Misericordia* (1445–62) – Tempera and oil on panel, 273 x 330&nbsp;cm, Museo Civico Sansepolcro
**The Baptism of Christ* () – Tempera on panel, 168 × 116&nbsp;cm, National Gallery, London
**St. Jerome in Penitence* () – Tempera on panel, 51 × 38&nbsp;cm, Staatliche Museen, Berlin
**St. Jerome and a Donor (Girolamo Amadi)'' (1451) – Tempera and oil on panel, 49 × 42&nbsp;cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
**Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta Praying in Front of St. Sigismund* (1451) – Fresco (transferred to canvas), 257 x 345&nbsp;cm, Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini
**Portrait of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta* () – Tempera and oil on panel, 44.5 × 34.5&nbsp;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&nbsp;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&nbsp;cm, Museo Civico Sansepolcro
**Hercules* () –Fresco (detached), 151 × 126&nbsp;cm, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
**St. Mary Magdalene* () – Fresco, 190 × 180&nbsp;cm, Cathedral, Arezzo
**Madonna del Parto* (1459–67) – Detached fresco, 260 × 203&nbsp;cm, Chapel of the cemetery, Monterchi
**The Nativity* () – Oil on panel, 124.5 × 123&nbsp;cm, National Gallery, London
**Polyptych of Saint Anthony* () – Oil on panel, 338 × 230&nbsp;cm, Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia
**Brera Madonna*, i.e. *Montefeltro Altarpiece*, (1472–74) – Oil on panel, 248 × 170&nbsp;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&nbsp;cm, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
**Madonna di Senigallia* () – Oil on panel, 67 × 53.5&nbsp;cm, Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino

## References
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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. .
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*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
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*"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.