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| Piero della Francesca art links |
|  Piero della Francesca: Saint Jerome Photograph by Flickr user "ho visto nina volare", Creative Commons licensed
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Piero della Francesca Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Piero della Francesca at the Louvre Museum, Paris Sigismondo Pandolfo Malesta, ca.1450-51
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Includes a biography of the artist
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. NEW!
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts Virgin and Child Enthroned with Four Angels, ca.1460-70
Frick Collection, New York City NEW!
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Marche Region Museums, Italy Flagellation of Crist Madonna of Senigallia
Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Italy
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid (Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Virtual Uffizi The Duke and Duchess of Urbino
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French) 
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Google Art Project Portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Urbino (Uffizi Gallery, Florence)
Google Art Project Portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Urbino (Uffizi Gallery, Florence)
Piero della Francesca at The Art Renewal Center
Piero della Francesca at The Artchive 
Piero della Francesca in the Web Gallery of Art 
Piero della Francesca in the WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Aiwaz Panopticon
Artliste Image archive with zoomable images
California State University WorldImages Database 
Piero della Francesca at CGFA 
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish) 
Humanities Web 
Jetset Image Galleries
Olga's Gallery
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW! Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
University of Leipzig, Germany 
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Progetto Piero Della Francesca Information relating to several restoration projects
The Piero Project: Piero della Francesca's Legend of the True Cross Using this site requires installing a VRML plugin called Cosmo
Adrian Fletcher's Paradoxplace
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
The Modernist Journals Project (Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Piero della Francesca  Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History 
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia Biographical info
Artnet Magazine The Legend of the True Cross, ca.1466
Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists Biography of the artist. Detailed, but Vasari's anecdotes are sometimes inaccurate.
The Guardian Newspaper, UK Essay on Diptych of the Duchess and Duke of Urbino, ca.1472
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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 The Piero Della Francesca Trail/the Best Picture
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 Piero Della Francesca: San Francesco, Arezzo
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