Piero's Light: In Search of Piero della Francesca: A Renaissance Painter and the Revolution in Art, Science, and Religion

The story of one remarkable artist of the early Italian Renaissance—a painter at the crossroads of our modern revolutions in art, religion, science—who remains a figure of enduring fascination in the twenty-first century.In the heart of Tuscany, Piero della Francesca became a painter and mathematician at the dawn of the Renaissance, revealing his innovative mind in some of the best known images from that period, and in his unusual writings on geometry. Yet as a personality, Piero remains a myste…