page_title: Piero della Francesca
section_title: Selected works
hierarchical_section_title: Piero della Francesca / Selected works
context_page_description: Piero della Francesca, originally named Piero di Benedetto, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. To contemporaries he was also known as a mathematician and geometer. Nowadays Piero della Francesca is chiefly appreciated for his art. His painting is characterized by its serene humanism, its use of geometric forms and perspective. His most famous work is the cycle of frescoes The History of the True Cross in the church of San Francesco in the Tuscan town of Arezzo.
context_section_description: Polyptych of the Misericordia (1445–62) –  Oil and tempera on panel, base 330 cm, height 273 cm, Museo Civico Sansepolcro
  The Baptism of Christ (c. 1448–50) –  Tempera on panel, 168 × 116 cm, National Gallery, London
  St. Jerome in Penitence (c. 1449–51) –  Oil on panel, 51 × 38 cm, Staatliche Museen, Berlin 
  St. Jerome and a Donor (1451) –  Panel, 40 × 42 cm, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
  Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta Praying in Front of St. Sigismund (1451) –  Fresco, Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini
  Portrait of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (c. 1451) –  Tempera and oil on panel, 44.5 × 34.5 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris
  The History of the True Cross (c. 1455–66) –  Frescoes, San Francesco, Arezzo
  The Flagellation of Christ (c. 1460) –  Tempera on panel, 59 × 81.5 cm, Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino
  Polyptych of Saint Augustine (1460–70) –  Oil and tempera on panel
  Resurrection (c. 1463) – Fresco, 225 × 200 cm, Museo Civico Sansepolcro
  Hercules (c. 1465) – Fresco, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
  Madonna del parto (1459–67) –  Detached fresco, 260 × 203 cm, Chapel of the cemetery, Monterchi
  The Nativity (c. 1470) –  124.5 × 123 cm, National Gallery, London
  Polyptych of Perugia (c. 1470) –  Oil on panel, 338 × 230 cm, Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia
  Madonna and Child with Saints (Montefeltro Altarpiece, (1472–74) –  Oil on panel, 248 × 170 cm, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan 
  Paired portraits (c. 1472) of Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza, respectively the Duke and Duchess of Urbino –  Oil on panel, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
  Madonna di Senigallia (c. 1474) –  Oil on panel, 67 × 53.5 cm, Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino
caption: The Baptism of Christ, (c. 1450) (National Gallery, London).
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