Piero della Francesca, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Piero della Francesca

Italian painter

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0001

Place of Birth: Sansepolcro, Tuscany, Italy

Date of Death: 12-Oct-1492

Profession: mathematician, painter

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Piero della Francesca (, also US: , Italian: ['pj??ro della fran't?eska] (listen); c.?1415 – 12 October 1492), originally named Piero di Benedetto, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance.
To contemporaries he was also known as a mathematician and geometer.
Nowadays Piero della Francesca is chiefly appreciated for his art.
His painting is characterized by its serene humanism, its use of geometric forms and perspective.
His most famous work is the cycle of frescoes The History of the True Cross in the church of San Francesco in the Tuscan town of Arezzo.



Alternative names	Vasari
Description	Italian painter, architect and historian
Date of birth/death	30 July 1511	27 June 1574
Location of birth/death	Arezzo	Florence
Work location	Florence, Rom, Arezzo
Authority control	: Q128027 VIAF: 46768219 ISNI: 0000 0001 2130 9590 ULAN: 500017608 LCCN: n79084160 NLA: 35578126 WorldCat