{[Renaissance [continued]:] Piero della Francesca}[26th April 1991]

[Redbook9:193][19910426:1153c]{[Renaissance [continued]:] Piero della Francesca}[26th April 1991]

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‘Piero della Francesca* received his early training in Florence but spent the active part of his career outside the city in such centres as Urbino, Arezzo, Rimini, and his native Borgo San Sepulcro, in the region of Umbria. His “Flagellation of Christ”, late 1450s,** in the Galleria Nazionale della Marche, Urbino, is a summary of early 15th-century interest in mathematics, perspective, and proportion (Plate 9).*** The calm sculptural figures are placed in a clear, rational space and bathed in a cool light that gives them a monumental dignity that can only be compared to early 5th-century BC[E]**** Greek sculpture.# Much the same tendency can be seen in Piero’s great fresco cycle in the church of S Francesco in Arezzo.’#*

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*(c[irca]1410-20–1492[ce])

**↓2048G~1536CE

***(& E[ncyclopaedia of] V[isual] A[rt] 4:626-7)

****↑2048G~512BCE

#(my emphasis)

(eg E[ncyclopaedia of] V[isual] A[rt] 4:137; 148?)

#*(1452-1466[ce]) ‘The Legend of the Cross’

#** – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 25:345]

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