Note *144 — Chapter XXVII
Reading edition
Cf. Pichi, La Vita e le Opere di Piero della Francesca (Borgo S. Sepolcro, 1893); Witting, Piero dei Franceschi (Strassburg, 1898); Crowe & Cavalcaselle, op. cit., vol. III. Berenson, op. cit., p. 69, says: "The pupil of Domenico Veneziano in characterisation, of Paolo Uccello in perspective, himself an eager student of this science, as an artist he [Piero] was more gifted than either of his teachers." Fra Luca Pacioli, one of the finest mathematicians of his day, praises Piero, and speaks of his renowned treatise on perspective, "now in the library of our illustrious Duke of Urbino."