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"della Francesca"
LEONARDO
Da VINCI
SERIES






Height
4.8 in
Mass
448 g
Fired
High
Glaze
None
Started
7/26/97
Finished
11/23/97
Style
Geometrica
Series
Leonardo da Vinci

This piece is named for Piero della Francesca (1410 - 1492), the Italian Renaissance artist who wrote a short book on the five regular solids and on perspective for painting. In other works on to geometry he contributed greatly to the understanding of applying Golden Mean in art. Much of della Francesca's work appears in Pacioli's Summa (1494), and "De Divina Proportione" (1509), and the simpler parts of Piero's perspective treatise were incorporated into almost all subsequent treatises on perspective addressed to painters.