Piero della Francesca

Piero della Francesca grew up in Sansepolcro, worked in Florence with Domenico Veneziano and absorbed the lessons of Masaccio and Brunelleschi. His pictures are built from clear geometry and pale, even daylight, with still, monumental figures that rarely show emotion. His fresco cycle of the Legend of the True Cross in San Francesco, Arezzo, is his largest work. He was also a serious mathematician who wrote treatises on perspective and geometry.