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 PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA
(Piero di Benedetto dei Franceschi, Sansepolcro c.1411-1492)
Piero was not only an extremely talented painter but also a theoretician and mathematician, author of treatises on perspective and geometry. Born at Sansepolcro near Arezzo, he trained w...
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 PIERO DI COSIMO
(Piero di Lorenzo di Chimenti, Florence c.1461- 1522)
In 1480 apprenticed to the shop of Cosimo Rosselli (1439-1507) from whom he took his nickname, Piero was called by Vasari "distracted and deformed intellect", perhaps for his indifference to of...
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 PIERO MANZONI
( Soncino 1934 - Milan 1963 )
Enfant prodige of Italian art in the late Fifties and early Sixties, Manzoni was one of the first to grasp the importance of Fontana's work and to interpret his heritage; but he was to go even further than his friend...
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 PIETRO CAVALLINI
(active in Rome and Naples between 1273 and 1321)
Thanks to the strengthening of papal power and the sophisticated openness of the cosmopolitan court of Naples, the art of Central/Southern Italy was enlivened in the 13th and 14th centuries by patr...
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 PIETRO DA CORTONA
(Pietro Berrettini, Cortona 1596 - Rome 1669)
Painter and architect, Pietro represents in both fields the "third way" as compared to Bernini and Borromini or Caravaggio and Carracci, which was to give rise to the phenomenon of "Cortonism". Arrivin...
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 PIETRO E AMBROGIO LORENZETTI
Pietro Ambrogio
(Siena 1280ca.-1348?) (Siena, documented from 1319 to 1348)
The fame of the two Sienese brothers spread beyond the boundaries of their city to arrive as far as Florence, where Ambrogi...
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 PIETRO LONGHI
(Pietro Falca, Venice 1702 - 1758 )
Beginning his career as a painter of history and religion, Longhi changed his approach subsequent to a stay in Bologna and an encounter with Crespi's work. His abandonment of the ''grand manner '' dates from 173...
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 PIETRO PERUGINO
(Pietro Vannucci, Cittą della Pieve 1450- Perugia 1523)
Perugia, near which the artist was born, gave him his pseudonym. His art was soon copied, "so popular in its time that many came from France, Spain, England and other provinces to learn it", ...
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 PINO PASCALI
(Polignano a Mare 1935 - Rome 1968 )
A pupil of Toti Scialoja at the Rome Academy, already by the early Sixties Pascali had grasped the sense of what was happening in young American Art, which seemed to point in the direction of an ironic, disillu...
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 PINTURICCHIO
(Bernardino di Betto, Perugia c.1454- Siena 1513)
A pupil of his fellow citizen Bartolomeo Caporali (1420-1506), Pinturicchio then assisted Perugino, with whom he worked on the Stories of San Bernardino (1473, Perugia, Galleria Nazionale) and the ...
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 PIRRO LIGORIO
(Naples 1510, Ferrara 1583)
Architect, painter and archaeologist. He arrived in Rome in 1534, and in 1549 he entered the service of Cardinal Ippolito d'Este of Ferrara, who commissioned him with planning a villa in Tivoli. At the same time he work...
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 POMPEO BATONI
(Lucca 1708 - Rome 1787)
After early training in drawing with his father, a goldsmith, Batoni was at Rome in 1727, where he was assisted financially by patrons of the arts from Lucca. He made drawings of ancient statues which he sold to foreigners...
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 PONTORMO
(Jacopo Carucci Pontormo, Empoli 1494 - Florence 1550)
A child of art - his father Bartolomeo was a pupil of Ghirlandaio - Jacopo is considered the founder of the Mannerist figurative culture, capable of blending Michelangelo's forceful colors an...
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