The Defranceschi Archive
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Piero della Francesca

Everything this archive holds under this name, gathered from every page of the site.

Whose face this is Piero della Francesca, c. 1415–1492. Licences and holders on Namesakes.

PlaceBorgo Sansepolcro
LineA place that fits none of the above
Found inNamesake
What the archive knows

Painting, mathematics

No family is drawn for this name, and no record stands behind it. This archive has not placed it in a household and holds no indexed entry for it — the name reached this project through a chart, a narrative source or the family tree, and everything it does hold is below. The Register is where a record would appear if one turned up.
Identity here is by name, not by resolved individual. Where two people of one name appear in this archive they share this page, and it is for the reader to keep them apart — the surrounding text usually makes it obvious. Nothing here is new evidence; it is the same evidence, brought together.

Appears on: The Other Franceschi · Changes · Corrections · Everyone · defranceski.com · The Search Register · Sources

Changes

…to Trentino, 2 abroad — lines they could not be given while they had no place. Roster people with no place at all: 209 → 161. Parishes known to this archive: 31 → 54. /research-log/ 10 Sept 2026 mixed Piero della Francesca is in the family tree MyHeritage tree 4 The one dated person among the hundred and one is «Piero di Benedetto «Piero della Francesca» Defranceschi, 1415–1492, Sansepolcro» — the painter — together with his father Benedetto…

…archive: 31 → 54. /research-log/ 10 Sept 2026 mixed Piero della Francesca is in the family tree MyHeritage tree 4 The one dated person among the hundred and one is «Piero di Benedetto «Piero della Francesca» Defranceschi, 1415–1492, Sansepolcro» — the painter — together with his father Benedetto Defranceschi and his mother Romana di Perino. The surname is not the error. Piero's father genuinely was a de' Franceschi of Sansepolcro; that much is…

…number is larger: it read a town's death registers act by act rather than searching an index for one surname. 1,151 is not an achievement. It is the size of the job. /archive/ 10 Sept 2026 correction Piero della Francesca in the family tree A claim taken back This archive said Nothing on this site — the claim is in the family's own MyHeritage tree, which places the painter Piero della Francesca (1415–1492) of Sansepolcro in this family, with…

…Sept 2026 correction Piero della Francesca in the family tree A claim taken back This archive said Nothing on this site — the claim is in the family's own MyHeritage tree, which places the painter Piero della Francesca (1415–1492) of Sansepolcro in this family, with his father Benedetto and mother Romana di Perino. What is Piero's father genuinely was a de' Franceschi of Sansepolcro, so the surname is real. The connection to the Carnian and Istrian…

Corrections

…own words, and says why the sister project's number is larger: it read a town's death registers act by act rather than searching an index for one surname. 1,151 is not an achievement. It is the size of the job. 10 Sept 2026 Piero della Francesca in the family tree note /people/· the MyHeritage tree Nothing on this site — the claim is in the family's own MyHeritage tree, which places the painter Piero della Francesca (1415–1492) of Sansepolcro in this…

…job. 10 Sept 2026 Piero della Francesca in the family tree note /people/· the MyHeritage tree Nothing on this site — the claim is in the family's own MyHeritage tree, which places the painter Piero della Francesca (1415–1492) of Sansepolcro in this family, with his father Benedetto and mother Romana di Perino. Piero's father genuinely was a de' Franceschi of Sansepolcro, so the surname is real. The connection to the Carnian and Istrian family is…

The Other Franceschi

…a Carnian one that reaches Istria about 1700. He is here because he is the reason the surname is in every art-historical index, and because for a year the roadmap carried «Andrea and Titian» as an unfinished item. It is finished. piero Piero della Francesca c. 1415–1492 Borgo Sansepolcro Painting, mathematics piero-diptych Born Piero di Benedetto, son of Benedetto de' Franceschi, a tradesman of the Tuscan Franceschi. He is called after his mother — la…

Everyone

…della Francesca c.1415–1492 Painter Sansepolcro Son of Benedetto de' Franceschi and Romana di Perino da Monterchi no Andrea dei Franceschi fl. 1525 Chancellor of Venice…

defranceski.com

…old page had eleven figures. This archive has twenty-eight, every one labelled kin or not kin, and the two the earlier reckoning listed as still owed — Andrea dei Franceschi and Titian, and Francesco the painter — have both since been written. Piero della Francesca, Girolamo, Alessandro OP, Domenico, Mariano, Carlo Francesco, and both Napoleonic Defrance / Franceschi-Delonne are all present with fuller lives than the old page gave them. The Coat of Arms — well ahead of it The old page reproduced…

…plainly what the old page did not: there is no coat of arms for a surname, and the crest vendors are selling a picture keyed to a text string. Not carried, on purpose — the works list The old People page ran a long catalogue of Piero della Francesca's paintings, museum by museum: Arezzo, Berlin, the Gardner, the Uffizi, Lisbon, the National Gallery, Thyssen-Bornemisza, the Brera, Poldi Pezzoli, Monterchi, the Frick, the Louvre, Perugia, the Tempio Malatestiano, Sansepolcro, Urbino, the Accademia,…

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