Piero della Francesca
Americannoun
noun
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European paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Fra Angelico, Piero della Francesca, Tintoretto, Rembrandt, Nicolas Poussin and other artists in the Western canon echo in his work, submerged within Modernist forms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 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
Say the name of the early Renaissance painter Piero della Francesca, and most art lovers think of his fresco cycle “The Legend of the True Cross,” in the Church of San Francesco in Arezzo, Italy.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2013
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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