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Piero della Francesca
Italian Early Renaissance Painter, ca.1422-1492 Italian painter and theorist. His work is the embodiment of rational, calm, monumental painting in the Italian Early Renaissance, an age in which art and science were indissolubly linked through the writings of Leon Battista Alberti. Born two generations before Leonardo da Vinci, Piero was similarly interested in the scientific application of the recently discovered rules of perspective to narrative or devotional painting, especially in fresco, of which he was an imaginative master; and although he was less universally creative than Leonardo and worked in an earlier idiom, he was equally keen to experiment with painting technique. Piero was as adept at resolving problems in Euclid, whose modern rediscovery is largely due to him, as he was at creating serene, memorable figures, whose gestures are as telling and spare as those in the frescoes of Giotto or Masaccio. His tactile, gravely convincing figures are also indebted to the sculpture of Donatello, an equally attentive observer of Classical antiquity. In his best works, such as the frescoes in the Bacci Chapel in S Francesco, Arezzo, there is an ideal balance between his serene, classical compositions and the figures that inhabit them, the whole depicted in a distinctive and economical language. In his autograph works Piero was a perfectionist, creating precise, logical and light-filled images (although analysis of their perspective schemes shows that these were always subordinated to narrative effect). However, he often delegated important passages of works (e.g. the Arezzo frescoes) to an ordinary, even incompetent, assistant.
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Painting ID:: 56651
pala mantefeltro
mk248 altartavlan i brea madonnan och barnetnetnet med anglar. helgon och federico da montefeltro, hertig av urbino. hertigen forlorade sitt bog ocb delar av nasan under en turnering ocb avbildades alltid i vansterprofil. detta ar frmodligen della fran cescas sista verk innan ban forlorade synen, men bans masterliga proportioner ar bapnads vackande. strutsagget som banger i skalet fran en snackan symboliserar jungfru fodseln ocb upprepas i ovalen som utgor madonnans buvud, placerat exakt mitt i tavlan.
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Painting ID:: 57229
porteait de sigismond malatesta
mk255 about the year 1450-1451. Canvas, 0.44 meters high, 0.34 meters wide. Paris, the Louvre.
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Painting ID:: 58136
Wu Binuo Duke Feidailike reaches the Mongolian peaceful fil Trow portrait
mk261 Florence, Ukrainian Fiji art museum
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Painting ID:: 58846
The Baptism of Christ
The Baptism of Christ, 1450 (National Gallery, London).
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Painting ID:: 58847
The Resurrection.
The Resurrection.
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Piero della Francesca
Italian Early Renaissance Painter, ca.1422-1492 Italian painter and theorist. His work is the embodiment of rational, calm, monumental painting in the Italian Early Renaissance, an age in which art and science were indissolubly linked through the writings of Leon Battista Alberti. Born two generations before Leonardo da Vinci, Piero was similarly interested in the scientific application of the recently discovered rules of perspective to narrative or devotional painting, especially in fresco, of which he was an imaginative master; and although he was less universally creative than Leonardo and worked in an earlier idiom, he was equally keen to experiment with painting technique. Piero was as adept at resolving problems in Euclid, whose modern rediscovery is largely due to him, as he was at creating serene, memorable figures, whose gestures are as telling and spare as those in the frescoes of Giotto or Masaccio. His tactile, gravely convincing figures are also indebted to the sculpture of Donatello, an equally attentive observer of Classical antiquity. In his best works, such as the frescoes in the Bacci Chapel in S Francesco, Arezzo, there is an ideal balance between his serene, classical compositions and the figures that inhabit them, the whole depicted in a distinctive and economical language. In his autograph works Piero was a perfectionist, creating precise, logical and light-filled images (although analysis of their perspective schemes shows that these were always subordinated to narrative effect). However, he often delegated important passages of works (e.g. the Arezzo frescoes) to an ordinary, even incompetent, assistant.
. Related Artists to Piero della Francesca: | John Frederick Lewis | DOMENICO DI MICHELINO | Alexandre Gabriel Decamps | Elias Vonck | Marshall, Thomas Falcon |
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