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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-, ˈpyɛ 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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

The artist’s fondness for the focused geometries of artists such as Renaissance master Piero della Francesca is well-known.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2018

“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

This is an image of rush hour as painted by Piero della Francesca, noiseless and immaculate.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 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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