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Piero della Francesca
[ pee-air-oh del-uh fran-ches-kuh, frahn-; Italian pye-raw del-lah frahn-che-skah ]
Piero della Francesca
/ ˈpjɛːro ˌdɛlla franˈtʃeska /
noun
- della FrancescaPiero?14201492MItalianARTS AND CRAFTS: painter ?1420–92, Italian painter, noted particularly for his frescoes of the Legend of the True Cross in San Francesco, Arezzo
Example Sentences
“What jumps out is the art and the exuberant monumentality of Piero della Francesca, because the whole is much more than the sum of its parts,’’ said co-curator Machtelt Bruggen Israels of the University of Amsterdam.
The static geometry of the figures recalls Piero della Francesca, but with an indifference to optical perfection whose gentle awkwardness charms.
European paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Fra Angelico, Piero della Francesca, Tintoretto, Rembrandt, Nicolas Poussin and other artists in the Western canon echo in his work, submerged within Modernist forms.
They talked about perception in art history, going as far back as Piero della Francesca.
The Colby show includes loose but easily recognizable improvisations on paintings by Fra Angelico, Piero della Francesca, Titian, Tintoretto and Poussin, as well as an extended run of paintings riffing on “Los Caprichos,” a famous suite of etchings by Goya.
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