Piero della Francesca's Impact on the Renaissance

Piero showed a lot of mathematical abilities in his earlier youth and went on to write many mathematical treatises. Of these treatises, only three are known to survive; The Abacus, Short Book on The Five Regular Solids, and Perspective for Painting.

For his work in art, he focused almost exclusively on issues of a religious nature. This served as a reference point for many artists in the Renaissance, the first among all the other great masters of perspective in the fifteenth century. Piero della Francesca is considered one of the most outstanding fifteenth century Renaissance artists.

His serene, disicplined exploration of perspective had little influence on his contemporaries but came to be recognized in the Twentieth century as a major contribution to the Italian Renaissance.

Piero did not establish a lasting tradition in central Italy. Luca Signorelli and Perugino, who were presumed to be his most important pupils, followed the examples of other masters.

Sources:

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Francesca.html

http://it.wikipedia.org/Piero_della_Francesco

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