Piero Della Francesca : artist and man / James R. Banker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Banker, James R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Piero, della Francesca, 1416?-1492.

Piero.

Painters--Italy--Biography.

Painters.

Painting, Italian.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Largely neglected for the four centuries after his death, the fifteenth century Italian artist Piero della Francesca is now seen to embody the fullest expression of the Renaissance perspective painter, raising him to an artistic stature comparable with that of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. But who was Piero, and how did he become the person and artist that he was? Until now, in spite of the great interest in his work, these questions have remained largely unanswered. Piero della Francesca: Artist and Man puts that situation right, integrating the story of Piero's artistic and mathematica

Contents:

Cover; PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA: Artist & Man; Copyright; Dedication; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Contents; List of Plates; List of Illustrations; List of Maps and Figures; Maps; Figures; Abbreviations; Note to the Reader; Prologue; Chapter 1: Piero's Formation in Sansepolcro; Sansepolcro; The Della Francesca Family; Piero as Apprentice and Assistant; The Baptism of Christ; Chapter 2: In Search of Piero, the Persistent Traveler, 1439-50; Piero and the Culture of Florence; Piero North of Tuscany; Piero in Sansepolcro in 1445: The Misericordia Contract; Ferrara; Piero in Ancona

Chapter 3: Piero at the Court of Sigismondo Malatesta in RiminiJacopo Anastagi; Piero's New Stage: The Court of Sigismondo; Saint Jerome and a Penitent; The Portrait of Sigismondo Malatesta; Sigismondo Malatesta Before His Patron Saint Sigismundus; Chapter 4: Piero in Arezzo The Legend of the True Cross; The Bacci Family and the Friars and Church of San Francesco; Dating the Painting of the Arezzo Frescoes; Looking at the Arezzo Frescoes; Choices in the High Altar Chapel; Piero's Narration of The Legend of the True Cross; Technical and Conceptual Accomplishments at Arezzo

Chapter 5: Creating the Sacred Piero della Francesca's Altarpiece for the Confraternity of the Madonna della MisericordiaThe Confraternity of Santa Maria della Misericordia; The Pichi Family; The Misericordia Commission; The Misericordia Altarpiece; The Pace of Painting and Payments; Chapter 6: Greek Geometry in Rome and Piero's Trattato d'abaco; Francesco del Borgo and Greek Geometry; Piero in Rome, 1458-59; Piero's Treatise on Abaco; Chapter 7: Piero's Return to Patria and Family; Workshops of the Della Francesca Family and Piero's Presence in Sansepolcro; Madonna del Parto

Saint Louis of Toulousesaint julian; The Resurrection of Christ; Chapter 8: An Arezzo Interlude; Two Lost Processional Banners; Saint Mary Magdalene and Other Commissions in Arezzo; Chapter 9: The Practice of Perspective The Sant'Antonio and Sant'Agostino Altarpieces and The Flagellation of Christ; The Sant'Antonio Altarpiece of Perugia; The Sant'Agostino Altarpiece; The Flagellation of Christ; Jacopo Anastagi; Chapter 10: Piero in Urbino in the Early 1470s; Federico da Montefeltro; The Uffizi Diptych of Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza; Chapter 11: Piero in Sansepolcro, 1472-75

The Fresco of the Glorious Virgin of the BadiaPiero as Builder; Hercules; Marco, Piero, and their Sister Vera; Chapter 12: Piero in Urbino, 1475-77; Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels; The Senigallia Madonna and Child; The Treatise On Perspective in Painting; The Composition of On Perspective in Painting; The Contents of On Perspective in Painting; The Audience for the Treatise; The Relationship of the Treatise to Piero's Paintings; Chapter 13: The Persuasiveness of Paternal Authority, 1477-81; The Lost Misericordia Fresco; The Williamstown Madonna and Child with Four Angels

Piero's Scriptorium and the Four Copies of On Perspective in Painting

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-162520-5

0-19-162519-1