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Piero della Francesca

Type Figure Region Italy Time c. 1415–1492 Also known as Piero di Benedetto dei Franceschi

Piero della Francesca was one of the most important painters and mathematicians of the early Italian Renaissance, born in San Sepolcro on the Tuscan …

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  1. c. 1430–1445San Sepolcro · TuscanyPiero was born into a merchant family in San Sepolcro and trained early in his hometown and in Florence, encountering Gothic painting and emerging perspective theories, laying the foundation for his later mathematical approach to composition.
  2. 1452–1466Arezzo · TuscanySponsored by Duke Federico da Montefeltro of Urbino and others, Piero painted the fresco cycle in the church of San Francesco in Arezzo and created perspective masterpieces such as the Flagellation of Christ, establishing his position as a representative of mathematical painting in the Renaissance.
  3. 1467–1492San Sepolcro · TuscanyIn later life he returned to his hometown, took part in local government, and wrote mathematical works on perspective and regular solids; his painting activity decreased, but his geometric ideas influenced later artists and scholars through his texts and works.

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