Francesca Piero

Around the middle of the 1460s, Piero della Francesca worked at the court of Federigo da Montefeltro – Count, and from 1474 the Duke of Urbino. By order of the

The altar image ordered by Piero della Francesca by the Brotherhood of Charity Borgo Sansepolcro is his first dated work. Now he is in the museum of his master’s hometown.

In his book “Biographies of famous painters” George Vasari described in detail the polyptych created by Piero della Francesca for the monastery of San Antonio in Perugia. Now this polyptych

One of the frescoes decorating the church of San Francesco in Arezzo. On the left Piero della Francesca depicts the moment of finding the Cross of the Lord. A woman

This figure of a sleeping soldier, present on the fresco “Resurrection”, written by Piero della Francesca for the town hall in Sansepolkro, many art historians consider a self-portrait of the

The altar of Montefeltro, also written by order of Federigo da Montefeltro, a requiem in honor of his deceased wife, is in the Pinacotheque of Brera, Milan. It is believed

The baptismal scene was written for the abbey of San Giovanni Battista in the hometown of Piero della Francesca Borgo San Sepolcro, Urbino probably around 1450. The two central figures

Documentary evidence confirming that this portrait belongs to the brush of Piero della Francesca, no, but his authorship in this case is almost certainly for art historians. Sijismondo Malatesta was

Order for the altar image for the Church of Sant’Agostino in San Sepolcro Piero della Francesca received in 1454. Work on it lasted until 1469. In its original form, the

The work is based on the variations of brown, blue and white colors customary for the master. Archangel Michael is depicted in the garb of a Roman soldier. In his

Frescoes from Arezzo Frescoes of the cycle “Cross of Faith” in the church of San Francesco in Arezzo are the most ambitious and famous work of Piero della Francesca. The

This work is considered one of the masterpieces of early Renaissance painting. Art historians first drew attention to it in the XVIII century. Then nothing was known either about the

Art historians are almost sure that the brush of Piero della Francesca belong, in addition to all known works, several more paintings. In particular, he is credited with several portraits

Piero della Francesca is one of the greatest artists of Italian Quattrocento. The donor, that is, the customer of the represented image, was Girolamo Amadi, the representative of a wealthy

Contemporaries called Piero della Francesca “the monarch of painting.” He himself, in turn, could very well join the words of mathematician Luke Pacioli that “the queen and mother of art

The composition of this fresco is clearly divided by the master into two halves. To the left, the viewer sees the Queen of Sheba, kneeling before a piece of wood,