ItalyStories.com — Great Italian Artists Masaccio's career lasted scarcely more than six years, yet he changed the direction of European painting. He died in 1428 at only twenty-six or twenty-seven, leaving behind a small body of work. But in those…
ItalyStories.com — Great Italian Artists Piero della Francesca occupies a unique place in Renaissance art. His paintings are calm, lucid, and geometrically ordered, yet they possess a mystery that resists explanation. Figures stand in clear light, architecture is measured with…