Mathematicians Piero della Francesca and Luca Pacioli
Piero was a well-published mathematician prior to turning to art, and used his skills in both the composition and the the perspective of his art. When he went blind, he turned to pure mathematics. He died on Columbus Day: October 12, 1492.
The Madonna del Parto
Located in a small hillside town of Montarchi, the place when Piero's mother was born, this fresco of the pregnant Madonna was in a chapel at the cemetery before being placed in a schoolhouse dedicated to this important work of art. The left and and the reversed cartoon to create the right angel (in reversed colors) open the Madonna's brocaded and fur-lined tent to reveal the Madonna pointing to her belly in both reference to the vagina to represent birth and rebirth (shape of the form encircling the ascended Christ).
