Piero della Francesca was an Italian painter, best known for his cycle of frescoes “The History of the True Cross” (also sometimes called “The Legend of the True Cross”). He created this masterwork between 1452 and 1466 in the Basilica of San Francesco in Arezzo. (Not all the work was done directly by him – while the design and layout are all his, some of the painting was done by his assistants, as was common in such projects at the time. Notably, one of the assistants was Giovanni di Piamonte, who later went on to fame as a painter in his own right.)
Della Francesca was an advocate of the use of perspective in painting, and wrote the treatise De prospectiva pingendi (On the Perspective of Painting) during the 1170s, the earliest work solely about perspective, and a reference work for later painters still in use centuries later.
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