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Piero della Francesca / Marilyn Aronberg Lavin.
Fine Arts Library ND623.P548 L38 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lavin, Marilyn Aronberg.
- Series:
- Art & ideas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Piero, della Francesca, 1416?-1492--Criticism and interpretation.
- Piero.
- Piero, della Francesca, 1416?-1492.
- Painting--Italy.
- Painting.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Italy.
- Physical Description:
- 352 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
- Edition:
- New edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Phaidon, 2002.
- Summary:
- Few artists of the fifteenth century are as revered today as Piero della Francesca (c. 1413-92). The 'favourite artist' of many painters and sculptors of our own time, he is admired especially for the balance of his compositions, the geometric perfection of his forms and the emotional coolness of his style. The secret of these qualities lies in part in Piero's achievements as a mathematician -- one of the greatest of his age who wrote three treatises on the subject. Even so, most of his paintings were commissioned to serve a religious function and were appreciated by his contemporaries for their spiritual value. In this comprehensive survey, which benefits from superlative new photography of recently cleaned frescos, Marilyn Aronberg Lavin offers detailed analyses of all of Piero's surviving works. Situating his images within the context of early Renaissance art, religion and politics, she skilfully links past and present to offer an understanding of the artist's timeless appeal.
- Contents:
- 1 Pietro da Borgo: The Painter and his City 11
- 2 Places, Patrons and Portraits: Piero's Commissions around 1450 47
- 3 Surface and Distance: Piero's Treatment of Pictorial Space 79
- 4 Fresco as Epic: The Cycle of the True Cross in Arezzo 113
- 5 Ideal Women: Mary Magdalene and the Madonna 185
- 6 Numbers and Shapes: Piero the Mathematician 215
- 7 Court of Law and Royal Court: Later Works for Sansepolcro and Urbino 233
- 8 In the End a Mystery: Piero's Last Paintings 285.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0714838527
- OCLC:
- 48931577
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