Giorgio Vasari, writing in his Lives of the Artists of 1550, lamented how Piero della Francesca (around 1415/20-92) had the “truly unhappy” fate of being “robbed of the honour that is due to his ...
Italian painter Piero Della Francesca died the year Columbus sailed for America, but he’s only now having his first solo show in the United States. The Frick Collection has four of his paintings, more ...
Of all the visual engines pulling the long freight train of Western art, alone, inscrutable, regal is Piero della Francesca. With Giotto, Velázquez, Goya, Cézanne, and several others, Piero—as he’s ...
ACCORDING TO THEOLOGIANS, angels have no gender. This bunch, though, resemble a well-fed, big-haired teenage boy band. In their harmonising robes of blue and cream, two strum lutes and one bows the ...
Time and overly enthusiastic cleaning had dealt enough damage to Piero Della Francesca’s masterful nativity painting, that when the National Gallery acquired it in 1874, the U.K. Parliament inquired ...
Only 10 actors are included: Mary kneels on the ground gazing at her newborn son who lies on a corner of her cloak, five angels celebrate Christ’s birth in song and Joseph sits on a saddle beside two ...
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Monterchi, a small town in the Italian region of Tuscany, has turned down hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue from Rome’s Capitoline museums after refusing its request to borrow Piero della ...
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