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Showing posts with label Piero della Francesca. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Piero della Francesca. Show all posts

7 October 2019

Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta - condottiero

Brutal tyrant or sensitive patron of the arts? A portrait of Sigismondo by Piero della Francesca, painted in about 1451 One of the m...

1 July 2018

Alberto Magnelli - abstract painter

Self-taught artist whose work became known as Concrete Art Animated Tension (1953): An example of the abstract art of the Italian pai...

20 July 2017

Giorgio Morandi – painter

The greatest master of still life in the 20th century Giorgio Morandi pictured in his studio in Bologna in 1953 The artist Gio...

7 June 2016

Federico da Montefeltro – condottiero

Patron of the arts made money through war Piero della Francesca's stark portrait of Federico da Montefeltro Federico da Montef...

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