Piero della Francesca
Piero della Francesca (c. 1420 - October 12, 1492) was an Italian
artist whose work was characterized by his interest in mathematics,
particularly how it related to perspective and foreshortening. He
wrote a treatise De prospectiva pingendi on how the rules of mathematical
foreshortening could be applied to any object, be it a cube or human
head. Less obvious in his work is his significant contribution to
the 'humanistic' rendition of figures in painting specifically his
renditions of Christ. Most of his life was spent in Arezzo and his
hometown, Borgo San Sepolcro in Tuscany. He studied under Domenico
Veneziano in Florence.
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