Piero della Francesca

Italian painter and mathematician (c. 1416–1492)

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Lived 1415–1492, aged 77

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1415–1492
Aged 77

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Updated 2026-05-29

Quattrocento painter who cracked perspective like a mathematical puzzle—his frescoes in Arezzo still pull viewers in five centuries later. Geometry and humanism merged where most people saw just a wall.

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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.

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