Piero della Francesca

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Italian painter Renaissance painter art theorist draughtsman human mathematician

Piero della Francesca was a 15th-century Italian Renaissance painter and mathematician renowned for his serene, geometrically structured compositions and pioneering use of linear perspective.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Italian painter → Renaissance painter → art theorist → draughtsman → human → mathematician →
countryOfCitizenship	Italy → Republic of Florence NERFINISHED →
dateOfBirth	c. 1415 →
dateOfDeath	12 October 1492 →
employer	Federico da Montefeltro → House of Este → Pope Nicholas V →
fieldOfWork	geometry → mathematics → painting → perspective theory →
gender	male →
influenced	Giorgio de Chirico → Leonardo da Vinci → Luca Pacioli → modernist painters →
influencedBy	Fra Angelico → Leon Battista Alberti → Masaccio →
knownFor	geometrically structured compositions → mathematical approach to painting → serene and calm figures → use of linear perspective →
movement	Early Renaissance → Italian Renaissance →
nativeLanguage	Italian →
notableWork	Brera Madonna → Legend of the True Cross fresco cycle → Madonna del Parto → Polyptych of the Misericordia → Portraits of Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza → Resurrection → Saint Jerome and a Donor → The Baptism of Christ → The Flagellation of Christ →
placeOfBirth	Sansepolcro → Tuscany →
placeOfDeath	Sansepolcro →
religion	Roman Catholicism →
style	clarity of light → mathematical spatial construction → monumental, static figures →
workedIn	Arezzo NERFINISHED → Ferrara NERFINISHED → Florence → Urbino NERFINISHED →
wrote	De prospectiva pingendi → De quinque corporibus regularibus → Libellus de quinque corporibus regularibus → Trattato d’abaco →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Old Masters →	hasNotableExample
Donato Bramante →	influencedBy