Word: umbrian
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Piero Delia Francesca, who was born about 1406 at Borge San Sepulcro, city situated between Arezzo and Urbino and who died in 1492, was one of the leaders of the Umbrian school. Pierro, besides being an artist of distinction, has a great reputation as a mathematician. In 1439 he was apprenticed to Domenic Veneziano, and assisted him in painting the chapel of Sant Egidio in Santa Mari Novella, Florence. He was engaged in painting a fresco in Rimini in 1451. His most important series of frescoes are those in the choir of San Francesco, in Arezzo, depicting the history...
Professor Edgell will give a conference on this picture next Tuesday afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. The Fogg Museum gives the following account of Gentile's life and work. "Gentile was an Umbrian artist who was subjected at various times to different influences. At first he felt the Byzantine and Gothic, and later was influenced by Florentine naturalism and Sienese refinement. He was a good story teller and better still, was a poet. He influenced not only Umbrian masters, but the painters of the Marches, Venice and North Italy. In 1423 he painted his most famous work, the "Epiphany...
...Fogg Art Museum has just received from an anonymous lender in New York an important fifteenth century oil and tempera painting, "A Crucifixion," attributed by Mr. Bernhard Berensen to the great Umbrian painter, Pietro Dei Franceschi, called Piero Della Francesca. The picture comes from the collection of the Colonna family in Rome, and was formerly in that of the Doria family in Milan...
Piero Della Francesca, who was born about 1406 at Borga San Sepulcro, a city situated between Arezzo and Urbino, and who died in 1492, was one of the leading painters of the Umbrian school. Piero, besides being a painter of distinction, is said to have been thoroughly educated in mathematics. In 1439 he was apprenticed to Domenico Veneziano, and assisted him in painting the Chapel of Sant' Egidio in Santa Maria Novella, in Florence. His most important extant series of frescoes are those in the choir of San Francesco, in Arezzo, depicting the History of the Cross...
...special loan exhibition of rare and valuable Italian paintings will be opened at the Fogg Art Museum today, and will last for two weeks. Among the pictures are an Umbrian Madonna by Lorenzo di San Severino; a profile portrait by Paolo Uccello; a picture of the Madonna and Child by Fra Angelico; an unfinished Madonna by Pinturicchio; a head of St. Catharine; a picture attributed to Perugino and some pictures representing the early Florentine, Sienese and Venetian schools...