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Piero della Francesca
The Flagellation of Christ, tempera on wood panel by Piero della Francesca, late 1450s; in the National Gallery of the Marches, Urbino, Italy.
Piero della Francesca’s artistic style was profoundly shaped by his formative experiences in Florence, where he encountered the foundational works of the early Renaissance. During his time in the city, he studied the works of several key Florentine masters, which provided the basis for his own disciplined approach to perspective, light, and form.1
The Florentine artists and figures who influenced his style include:
- Masaccio: A primary influence whose work in the Brancacci Chapel and elsewhere established the sculptural treatment of figures and rational spatial construction that Piero later adopted.21
- Domenico Veneziano: An associate who helped train Piero and introduced him to a Renaissance emphasis on color and light as essential elements of pictorial construction.21
- Donatello and Luca della Robbia: Piero studied their statuary, which informed his own interest in creating monumental, sculpturally conceived figures.1
- Filippo Brunelleschi: His architectural works were a key point of study for Piero’s understanding of space.1
- Fra Angelico: Another master whose paintings Piero studied during his time in Florence.1
- Leon Battista Alberti: A humanist and architect whose theoretical treatises on painting and perspective were highly influential on Piero’s own mathematical and geometric approach to art.1