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Excerpt from Piero Della Francesca We know, albeit imperfectly, that he was at different periods of his life the honoured guest at the splendid and cultivated court of Urbino in the days of the good Duke Federigo, that he also lived for a time in the Sinister atmosphere Of Malatesta's castle at Rimini; while Fra Luca Pacioli, a citizen of Borgo San Sepol cro, and one of the leading mathematicians of his age, writes in his Architettura, and illustrious amongst mathematicians is Piero della Francesca, who in this our day is recognized as the monarch of painting and of architecture as well, as is proved by the works he has produced with his brush, frescoes, pictures on panels, some in Oil and some in water-colour (gnazeo), in Ur bino, Bologna, Ferrara, Rimini, Ancona, and in our own country, especially in the city of Arezzo in the great chapel of the Choir behind the high altar of San Francesco, one of the most excellent works of Italy and praised by all men. And he is likewise renowned for his treatise on perspective which is now in the library of our illustrious Duke of Urbino. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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