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Piero della Francesca

Resurrection, detail (Self-Portrait) - Piero della Francesca

Born: 1412; Sansepolcro, Italy

Died: 1492; Sansepolcro, Italy

Field: painting, fresco

Nationality: Italian

Art Movement: Early Renaissance

An Early Italian Renaissance painter, Piero della Francesca’s paintings were characterized by a serene humanism, geometric forms and use of perspective. Little is know about his early apprenticeships and art studies, but his early works show the influence of the Sienese artists; which were active during his youth. It is known that he first received payments for his work as early as1439, when he was roughly around the age of 27. It is possible that during his stay in Florence he met such great masters as Brunelleschi, Fra’ Angelico, and Mantegna.

He began receiving his first public commissions in the 1440’s, executing works in San Sepolcro and Remini. During his stay in Remini it is though that Francesca may have met with the mathematician Leon Battista Alberti, as mathematics was one of his intellectual pursuits. Throughout his career, he traveled all around Italy, traveling to Rome in the late 1950’s when he was summoned by Pope Nicholas V to complete frescoes in the Papal capital.

Wikipedia article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piero_della_Francesca

Featured Artworks

Baptism of Christ, 1450
The Flagellation of Christ, c.1445-1450
Madonna del Parto, c.1460
The Resurrection, c.1460
Nativity, 1470-1475
Battle between Heraclius and Chosroes

Artworks by Style

Early Renaissance

The Madonna of Mercy, 1445
Baptism of Christ, 1450
Baptism of Christ (detail), 1450
The Flagellation of Christ, c.1445-1450
The Penance of St. Jerome, c.1450
Sigismondo Malatesta, 1451
St. Jerome and a Donor, 1451
St. Sigismund and Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, 1451
Augustinian Saint, c.1460
Crucifixion, c.1460
Madonna and Child, c.1460
Saint Mary Magdalen, 1460

Artworks by Series

The Legend of the True Cross

Annunciation, 1464
Battle Between Constantine And Maxentius, 1464
Burial of the Holy Wood, 1464
Exaltation of the Cross: Heraclius enters Jerusalem with the Cross, 1464
Finding of the True Cross, 1464
Heraclius Restores the Cross to Jerusalem, 1464
Procession of the Queen of Sheba and Meeting between the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon, 1464
Queen of Sheba Worshipping the Wood of the Cross, 1464
The Dream of Constantine, 1464
Victory of Constantine at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, 1464
Angel
Annunciation (detail)

Polyptych of the Misericordia

The Madonna of Mercy, 1445
Archangel Gabriel
St. Andrew and St. Bernardino
St. Benedict
St. Francis

Polyptych of St. Augustine

Augustinian Saint, c.1460
Crucifixion, c.1460

Polyptych of St. Anthony

Madonna and Child, c.1460
St. Anthony Resurrects a Child, c.1460
St. Elizabeth Saves a Boy, c.1460
St. Francis and St. Elizabeth, c.1460
The Annunciation, c.1460
The Stigmatisation of St. Francis, c.1460

Diptych: Portraits of Federico da Montefeltro and His Wife Battista Sforza

Portrait of Battista Sforza, 1465
Portraits Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza, 1465

Polyptych Of St. Augustine

St. Augustine and St. Michael
St. John the Evangelist and St. Nicholas of Tolentino
St. Michael

Artworks by Genre

religious painting

The Madonna of Mercy, 1445
The Penance of St. Jerome, c.1450
The Flagellation of Christ, c.1445-1450
Baptism of Christ (detail), 1450
Baptism of Christ, 1450
St. Sigismund and Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, 1451
St. Jerome and a Donor, 1451
The Stigmatisation of St. Francis, c.1460
The Resurrection, c.1460
Madonna del Parto, c.1460
The Annunciation, c.1460
St. Ludovico, c.1460

mythological painting

Hercules

portrait

Sigismondo Malatesta, 1451
Federigo da Montefeltro, 1465
Portraits Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza, 1465
Portrait of Battista Sforza, 1465
Portrait of a boy
Triumph of Battista Sforza
Triumph of Federico da Montefeltro

cityscape

Ideal City, c.1470

Artworks by Technique

fresco

St. Sigismund and Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, 1451
The Resurrection, c.1460
Madonna del Parto, c.1460
St. Ludovico, c.1460
Saint Mary Magdalen, 1460
Victory of Constantine at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, 1464
The Dream of Constantine, 1464
Procession of the Queen of Sheba and Meeting between the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon, 1464
Queen of Sheba Worshipping the Wood of the Cross, 1464
Finding of the True Cross, 1464
Heraclius Restores the Cross to Jerusalem, 1464
Exaltation of the Cross: Heraclius enters Jerusalem with the Cross, 1464

oil

Sigismondo Malatesta, 1451
Polyptych of the Misericordia, 1445-1462
Nativity, 1470-1475
Archangel Gabriel
Crucifixion
Madonna and Child Attended by Angels
St. Andrew and St. Bernardino
St. Sebastian and John the Baptist
St. Augustine
St. Benedict
St. Francis

tempera

The Madonna of Mercy, 1445
The Flagellation of Christ, c.1445-1450
Baptism of Christ, 1450
Baptism of Christ (detail), 1450
Sigismondo Malatesta, 1451
Crucifixion, c.1460
Augustinian Saint, c.1460
Polyptych of the Misericordia, 1445-1462
The Flagellation of Christ (detail), c.1464
The Flagellation of Christ (detail), c.1465
Portraits Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza, 1465
Portrait of Battista Sforza, 1465