In 1454, the Augustinians in San Sepolcro wanted a grand polyptych for the high altar of their church. They commissioned hometown master Piero della Francesca for the task. It took Piero 12 years—Pope ...

Eight known components of artwork were housed in five different museums in Europe and the US before being reunited in Milan Eight surviving panels of Piero della Francesca’s Augustinian altarpiece ...

From November 14, 2025, to January 16, 2026, the Borso d'Este Bible, one of the greatest masterpieces of Italian Renaissance art, will be on display in the Capitolare Hall of the Senate of the ...

Italian painter Piero Della Francesca died the year Columbus sailed for America, but he’s only now having his first solo show in the United States. The Frick Collection has four of his paintings, more ...

ACCORDING TO THEOLOGIANS, angels have no gender. This bunch, though, resemble a well-fed, big-haired teenage boy band. In their harmonising robes of blue and cream, two strum lutes and one bows the ...

Left: David Hockney standing beside his painting My Parents (1977), in the same year that he created it, with Piero della Francesca’s The Baptism of Christ (around ...

Of all the visual engines pulling the long freight train of Western art, alone, inscrutable, regal is Piero della Francesca. With Giotto, Velázquez, Goya, Cézanne, and several others, Piero—as he’s ...

Time and overly enthusiastic cleaning had dealt enough damage to Piero Della Francesca’s masterful nativity painting, that when the National Gallery acquired it in 1874, the U.K. Parliament inquired ...

The rapture that has greeted “Piero della Francesca in America,” at the Frick Collection, is a bit much. Reactions to this unquestionably beautiful gathering of seven paintings by the ...