Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Piero della Francesca (c. 1412 – October 12, 1492)

                                                                                                                           
The Madonna Della Misericordia
c. 1460

Piero was a mathematician as well as an artist. It might seem like an odd mixture, but artists were often carried into strange professions; Kandinsky, for example, was an economist and lawyer. And while it might be tempting to fly into Piero's works with an expectation of geometrical and mathematical accents, the works rest much more on the emotional depictions of their characters and symbolism of their themes. More so, Piero somehow transcended that rigidity of position and expression common in the men and women in Early Renaissance paintings through subtle articulations. 

Nativity
1470

Polyptych of St. Augustine
1460-1470

Burial of the Wood
1455

St. Benedict of Nursia
1445-1462

The Torture of the Jew
1452-1466

Stigmatization of St. Francis
1487

The Resurrection
c. 1450

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