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Piero
della Francesca

1415 — 1492 · Renaissance

The Life of Piero della Francesca Piero della Francesca was an Italian painter, mathematician, and geometer of the Early Renaissance. He was born Piero di Benedetto de' Franceschi around 1415 in Borgo San Sepolcro, Tuscany, Italy. His background was rooted in the practicalities of trade …

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Piero della Francesca
The Palette Genome

A portrait built from Piero della Francesca's own colours

Every 100 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.

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Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.

Four-Colour Decomposition
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The Chromatic Knot

Every painting, placed on the hue wheel

Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.

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Reading the Genome

The signature, in numbers