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...Urbino, and who died in 1492, was one of the leading painters of the Umbrian school. Piero, besides being a painter of distinction, is said to have been thoroughly educated in mathematics. In 1439 he was apprenticed to Domenico Veneziano, and assisted him in painting the Chapel of Sant' Egidio in Santa Maria Novella, in Florence. His most important extant series of frescoes are those in the choir of San Francesco, in Arezzo, depicting the History of the Cross...