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Who commissioned Piero della Francesca’s altarpiece for S. Agostino?
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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.
The altarpiece for S. Agostino was commissioned in 1454 by a burgher of Sansepolcro named Agnolo di Giovanni di Simone d’Angelo. Piero della Francesca did not complete the work until 1469.1