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| Height 4.8 in | Mass 448 g | Fired High | Glaze None | Started 7/26/97 | Finished 11/23/97 | Style Geometrica | Series Leonardo da Vinci |
This piece is named for Piero della Francesca (1410 - 1492), the Italian Renaissance artist who wrote a short book on the five regular solids and on perspective for painting. In other works on to geometry he contributed greatly to the understanding of applying Golden Mean in art. Much of della Francesca's work appears in Pacioli's Summa (1494), and "De Divina Proportione" (1509), and the simpler parts of Piero's perspective treatise were incorporated into almost all subsequent treatises on perspective addressed to painters.