Piero della Francesca: Where Art and Geometry Meet<br />The Frick Collection - The Frick Collection<br />More often celebrated as a painter, Piero della Francesca was also a pioneering mathematician. This lecture will discuss Piero's achievements as a mathematician, focusing on his precocious mastery of the teachings of the Greek geometrician Archimedes. Shortly after his death, Luca Pacioli, a Franciscan friar, published two of Piero's treatises under his own name and conveyed Piero's knowledge of geometry to Leonardo da Vinci, who later became an expert in the subject.
