Piero della Francesca
1415 – 1492 · aged 77
Italian painter and mathematician (c. 1416–1492)
- Born
- 1415 · Sansepolcro
- Died
- 1492 · Sansepolcro
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- 1415BornBorn in Sansepolcro
- 1492DiedDied in Sansepolcro
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- c. 1440Gutenberg’s printing press
- 1453Fall of Constantinople
- 1455 – 1487Wars of the Roses
- 1492Columbus reaches the Americas
Biography
Piero della Francesca ( PYAIR-oh DEL-ə fran-CHESK-ə, US also - frahn-; Italian: [ˈpjɛːro della franˈtʃeska] ; né Piero di Benedetto de' Franceschi; c. 1415 – 12 October 1492) was an Italian painter, mathematician and geometer of the Early Renaissance, nowadays chiefly appreciated for his art. His painting is characterized by its serene humanism, its use of geometric forms and perspective. His most famous work is the cycle of frescoes The History of the True Cross in the Basilica of San Francesco in the Tuscan town of Arezzo.
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