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PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA: Portrait of Federico da Montefeltro

🖼 Portrait of Federico da Montefeltro, 1473-75
Oil on wood
47 × 33 cm
Florence, Italy

Rendered in sharp profile, Federico da Montefeltro appears austere and commanding, his distinctive broken nose emphasized against a distant, luminous landscape. Piero della Francesca's mathematical precision and cool light established the prototype for Renaissance portraiture, celebrating humanist ideals of rational power and civic virtue.

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E. H. Gombrich
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