Piero della Francesca, painter whose serene, disciplined exploration of perspective had little influence on his contemporaries but came to be recognized in the 20th century as a major contribution to the Italian Renaissance. Learn more about his life and
Piero della Francesca:Flagellation of ChristFlagellation of Christ, tempera on wood panel by Piero della Francesca, late 1450s; in the National Gallery of the Marches, Urbino, Italy. In 1401−02 the goldsmith and painterLorenzo Ghibertiwon a competition held at Florence and was awarded the comm...
Perugino,Piero della Francesca,Raphael, andTitian; sculptors such asGiovanni Pisano,Donatello,Andrea del Verrocchio,Lorenzo Ghiberti, andMichelangelo; and architects such asLeon Battista Alberti,Filippo Brunelleschi,Andrea Palladio,Michelozzo, andFilarete, the dignity of humanity found expression in the ...
Piero della Francesca:Flagellation of ChristFlagellation of Christ, tempera on wood panel by Piero della Francesca, late 1450s; in the National Gallery of the Marches, Urbino, Italy. In 1401−02 the goldsmith and painterLorenzo Ghibertiwon a competition held at Florence and was awarded the comm...
Perugino,Piero della Francesca,Raphael, andTitian; sculptors such asGiovanni Pisano,Donatello,Andrea del Verrocchio,Lorenzo Ghiberti, andMichelangelo; and architects such asLeon Battista Alberti,Filippo Brunelleschi,Andrea Palladio,Michelozzo, andFilarete, the dignity of humanity found expression in the ...
that ofPiero della Francesca. Bellini’s greatCoronation of the VirginatPesaro, for example, might have reflected some of the compositional elements of Piero’s lostCoronation of the Virgin, painted as the central panel of a polyptych. Christ’s crowning of his mother beneath the effulgence of...
Piero della Francesca: Flagellation of ChristFlagellation of Christ, tempera on wood panel by Piero della Francesca, late 1450s; in the National Gallery of the Marches, Urbino, Italy. (more) In 1401−02 the goldsmith and painter Lorenzo Ghiberti won a competition held at Florence and was awa...
Piero della Francesca: Flagellation of ChristFlagellation of Christ, tempera on wood panel by Piero della Francesca, late 1450s; in the National Gallery of the Marches, Urbino, Italy. (more) In 1401−02 the goldsmith and painter Lorenzo Ghiberti won a competition held at Florence and was awa...
Perugino,Piero della Francesca,Raphael, andTitian; sculptors such asGiovanni Pisano,Donatello,Andrea del Verrocchio,Lorenzo Ghiberti, andMichelangelo; and architects such asLeon Battista Alberti,Filippo Brunelleschi,Andrea Palladio,Michelozzo, andFilarete, the dignity of humanity found expression in the ...
Urbino had become a centre of culture during the rule of DukeFederico da Montefeltro, who encouraged the arts and attracted the visits of men of outstanding talent, includingDonato Bramante,Piero della Francesca, andLeon Battista Alberti, to his court. Although Raphael would be influenced by major...