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Piero della Francesca (1422-1492)  was an Italian painter, virtually forgotten for centuries after his death, but regarded since his rediscovery in the early 20th century as one of the supreme artists of his time. Piero unified, completed, and refined the discoveries of past artists and created a style in which monumental, meditative grandeur and almost mathematical lucidity are combined with limpid beauty of color and light. He had considerable influence upon the artist of his day, notably in the weighty solemnity of his figures and in the spatial clarity of his compositions.

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