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Piero della Francesca

American  
[pee-air-oh del-uh fran-ches-kuh, frahn-, pye-raw del-lah frahn-che-skah] / piˈɛər oʊ ˈdɛl ə frænˈtʃɛs kə, frɑn-, ˈpjɛ rɔ ˈdɛl lɑ frɑnˈtʃɛ skɑ /

noun

  1. Piero de' Franceschi, Francesca, Piero della.


Piero della Francesca British  
/ ˈpjɛːro ˌdɛlla franˈtʃeska /

noun

  1. ?1420–92, Italian painter, noted particularly for his frescoes of the Legend of the True Cross in San Francesco, Arezzo

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The static geometry of the figures recalls Piero della Francesca, but with an indifference to optical perfection whose gentle awkwardness charms.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 1, 2023

He loved Piero della Francesca, too, and saw the Renaissance artist’s multipanel frescos, in Arezzo as early forms of comic-like storytelling.

From Washington Post Sep. 3, 2020

“There are some artists in the textbooks today — like Botticelli or Piero della Francesca — who were long forgotten for centuries and then rediscovered by writers and artists,” Mr. Geronimus said.

From Washington Times Feb. 1, 2015

Between 8:30 and 10 a.m., enough people stand still, some in groups, to make the floor look like an Italian piazza: those painted by Piero della Francesca come to mind.

From New York Times Aug. 31, 2011

It is presumably for this reason that Pacioli’s first biographer, Bernardino Baldi, writing in the late sixteenth century, attributed the painting to Piero della Francesca, whose expert knowledge of the regular solids was well known.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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