Piero della Francesca

Portrait of Piero della Francesca from a 1648 edition of ''[[Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects|The Lives]]'' Piero della Francesca ( , ; ; ; – 12 October 1492) was an Italian painter, mathematician and geometer of the Early Renaissance, nowadays chiefly appreciated for his art. His painting is characterized by its serene humanism, its use of geometric forms and perspective. His most famous work is the cycle of frescoes ''The History of the True Cross'' in the Basilica of San Francesco in the Tuscan town of Arezzo.

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    Piero della Francesca / by Previtali, Giovanni

    Published 1964
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