The eighth panel, Saint Apollonia, is not illustrated in this view as it was located on the side of the altarpiece. “Piero della Francesca in America” is on view at The Frick Collection through May 19 ...
In 1454, the Augustinians in San Sepolcro wanted a grand polyptych for the high altar of their church. They commissioned hometown master Piero della Francesca for the task. It took Piero 12 years—Pope ...
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 ...
MILAN – An unprecedented exhibition opening Wednesday at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan reunites for the first time in over 450 years eight surviving panels of the Augustinian Altarpiece by the ...
Federico da Montefeltro, an esteemed but ruthless mercenary captain, a bastard child who became Duke of Urbino, a renowned humanist who turned little Urbino into a dazzling European court, also ...
The present work, Details of Renaissance Paintings (Piero della Francesca, Madonna del Duca da Montefeltro, circa 1472), is a unique screenprint by Andy Warhol. Coming from his 1984 portfolio of ...
This week: On Piero della Francesca, the National Arts Club, Beethoven’s sonatas & more. Kyle Staver, Susanna’s Hammock, 2020, Oil on canvas, courtesy of the artist and Zürcher Gallery, now on view at ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Identification (handwritten): written ...
The latest book from Witham (Picasso and the Chess Player) is a workmanlike examination of the early Renaissance polymath Piero, whose life and accomplishments are used to survey “the precipitous ...