Piero della Francesca was one of the most interesting artists of the Italian Renaissance painter is a mathematician, his works impress with careful use of perspective the result of precise studies geometric Not much is known of the life of Piero della Francesca from the date of birth that appears certain as a fire burned the birth certificates of Registry of Sansepolcro his father is a merchant for this why the young Piero immediately takes conversant with the calculations and formulas mathematical We know that in 1439 Piero della Francesca was in Florence where you fit artistically working as an
assistant to Domenico Veneziano You will have the opportunity in the Tuscan city of known artists such as Masaccio and Paolo Bird which you inspire for the study the prospect was fascinated from the works of Beato Angelico for the color rendering and light Urbino, Ferrara, Bologna, Arezzo, Rimini, Rome, Perugia between the years 40 and 50 Piero della Francesca will be the guest of important courts Italian where realize works for the rich lords such as monumental fresco painted in 1451 by the lords of Rimini 1460 dates from one of the works famous and mysterious of Piero della
Francesca it is the Flagellation of Christ except for the masterful use of perspective and color painting It preserves an enigma that has not yet It has been clarified Who are the three people in the foreground? some say that is hiding behind a political significance, but there is no definitive certainty Between 1469 1472 Piero della Francesca's guest of the Duke of Montefeltro in Urbino important patron at whose court They are hosted numerous artists and intellectuals it is in these years that the artist created two of his most famous works the double portrait of the Dukes of
Urbino and the Brera Altarpiece In both works, the Duke of Urbino Federico da Montefeltro is portrayed in His left profile it is no coincidence the Duke had lost the right eye is not known if battle or during a carousel so preferred being only portray side It seems to have been made just file off top of the nose to have greater Visibility with the good eye and thereby offset the physical handicap Despite being a convinced humanist almost all the works of Piero della Francesca exception made for the portrait of the dukes Urbino is a fresco of
Hercules They represent religious subjects the reason was essentially economic the works of Piero della Francesca were in fact all done on commission In addition to the brilliant artist Piero Francesca was also a talented mathematician and geometer to him we owe the fact manual calculation entitled "Treaty on the abacus" "De prospectiva pingendi" and "De quinque corporibus regularibus" The religious Luca Pacioli considered the creator of the accounting and the inventor double entry Piero della Francesca will define the monarch painting
