Piero della Francesca
Americannoun
noun
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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
They talked about perception in art history, going as far back as Piero della Francesca.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
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
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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