Piero della Francesca

1415–1492 · Early Renaissance

Piero della Francesca 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.

30 paintings

• Madonna di Senigallia (1476)
• The Virgin and Child and Three Angels (1470)
• Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino
• Flagellation of Christ (1459)
• Brera Madonna (1472)
• Polyptych of the Misericordia (1460)
• Polyptyque de Sant'Antonio (1469)
• Hercules (1465)
• Virgin and Child Enthroned with Four Angels (1475)
• Discovery and Proof of the True Cross (1458)
• St. John the Evangelist (1454)
• Saint Jerome and a Donor (1440)
• Saint Louis of Toulouse (1460)
• Saint Nicholas of Tolentino (1456)
• Saint Augustin (1454)
• Saint Apollonia (1454)
• An Augustinian Nun (Saint Monica) (1454)
• Augustinian Saint (1454)
• Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta en prière devant saint Sigismond (1451)
• Annunciation (St. Anthony) (1460)
• Saint Jerome penitent (1450)
• Portrait of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (1450)
• The Baptism of Christ (1448)
• The Nativity (1480)
• Saint Michael (1454)
• Saint Apollonia (c. 1455/1460)
• Portrait of a Boy. Guidobaldo da Montefeltro (?) (1483)
• Portrait of Federico da Montefeltro (1474)
• Diptych of Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza (1470)
• Portrait of Battista Sforza (1474)