Piero della Francesca, the Master of Perspective
Six Paintings. One Concept
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Renaissance is about harmony and idealized beauty of the models of the classic antiquity. And in the search of that harmony, we find the obsession with proportions, perspective, volumes, and the study of anatomy.
One of the most representative artists of the interest about perspective and the geometrical equilibrium is Piero della Francesca, an artist that today is very valued due to his pictorial works —specially his frescos— and that in his times was also recognized as a great mathematician and teacher of Geometry.
Della Francesca lived and worked in the 15th century. He was born c. 1416 and died in 1492. He was one of the fundamental artists of the Quattrocento (the first part of the century of the Renaissance) even when he barely stayed in Florence and never made a work for the Medici; the powerful family of the city who due to his financial support for the arts has become a synonym of that first part of the Renaissance.
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