Piero della Francesca

Franceschi, Pietro di Benedetto dei
Franceschi, Piero dei

Italian, c. 1416/1417 - 1492

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Italian painter and mathematician (c. 1416–1492)

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Shown from the knees up, a pale-skinned woman in front of a gold background wears a rose-pink cloak over a sky-blue dress and holds up a tooth in a pair of pincers in this vertical painting. Her body faces us but she looks slightly off to our left with pale brown eyes under faint, arched brows. She has a long nose and her thin, coral-pink lips are closed. Her wavy, auburn-brown hair falls closely around her neck. Her light blue dress has narrow, V-shaped neckline and the high waistline is gathered under a white belt or sash to create the impression of vertical pleats. Her deep pink cloak is fastened with a cord at the neck. It falls over her shoulders and arms, and she holds up the opposite hem with her left hand, on our right. In her right hand, on our left, she holds up a pair of iron-colored pincers holding a small, white object, a tooth. The surface of the painting is noticeably cracked, especially in the shiny gold background behind the person.
Piero della Francesca, Saint Apollonia, c. 1455/1460, tempera on poplar panel, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1952.5.19

Saint Apollonia

Piero della Francesca · c. 1455/1460 · tempera on poplar panel ·  Accession ID  1952.5.19

Bibliography

1927

  • Longhi, Roberto. Piero della Francesca. Rome, n.d. [1927]; 3rd ed. [1962] in Edizione della Opere Complete di Roberto Longhi. Florence, 1963.

1968

  • Hendy, Philip. Piero della Francesca and the Early Renaissance. London and New York, 1968.

1969

  • Clark, Kenneth. Piero della Francesca. London, 1951. 2nd ed., London and New York, 1969.

1971

  • Battisti, Eugenio. Piero della Francesca. Milan, 1971. 2nd ed. 1992.

1979

  • Salmi, Mario. Piero della Francesca. Novara, 1979.

1989

  • Paolucci, Antonio. Piero della Francesca. Firenze, 1989.

1992

  • Lightbown, Ronald. Piero della Francesca. London, 1992. Italian ed., Milan, 1992.

1998

  • Calvesi, Maurizio. Piero della Francesca. Milan, 1998.

2003

  • Boskovits, Miklós, and David Alan Brown, et al. Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. The Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 2003: 578.