Author: LASKOWSKI, BIRGIT
Title: Piero Della Francesca
Description: Cologne Germany: Konemann, 1998. Hardcover. ISBN: 3829002475. Masters of Italian Art Series; Color Illustrations; 11 x 12 1/2; 120 pages; Hard cover with DJ. Slight bumping. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Illustrated with color pictures, by the Renaissance master, Della Francesca. Piero della Francesca , (c. 1415- 1492) was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. As noted by Giorgio Vasari in his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, to contemporaries he was also known as a mathematician and geometer. Today della Francesca is chiefly appreciated for his art. His painting is characterized by its serene humanism, its use of geometric forms and perspective. Oversized, 4#.. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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