(For Tracy Michele, who always reads them first.)

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

A Puzzling Enigma

(The Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan)

By ROBERT EDWARD BULLOCKSpecial to the Sun | January 22, 2014

A carefully focused exhibit of four devotional works by Piero della Francesca, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, presents works never seen together before while highlighting the 15th-century painter's mastery of mathematical perspective. 


Piero della Francesca (d.1492) was a seminal figure of Italian Renaissance painting, an accomplished mathematician and author of an important treatise on perspective. Spanning almost four decades, these four paintings provide a broad yet telescopic overview of his career.

(Read the entire review at The New York Sun.)