Italian painter and mathematician (c. 1416–1492)

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Mathematics and the craft of painting : Piero della Francesca and perspective / J.V. Field.

The enigma of Piero : Piero della Francesca the Baptism, the Arezzo cycle, the Flagellation / Carlo Ginzburg ; with an introduction by Peter Burke ; translated by Martin Ryle and Kate Soper.

Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child. Engraving by F.-E.Burney after A. Baldovinetti.

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Piero, della Francesca, 1416?-1492

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Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child. Engraving by F.-E.Burney after A. Baldovinetti.