This monograph is a somewhat broadened version of the material in my article ' Piero della Francesca's Flagellation : the Triumph of Christian Glory , ' Art Bulletin , vol . 50 , 1968 , pp . 321-42 . In the notes that follow I shall ...
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Language: en
Pages: 111
Pages: 111
"Lavin's study of the Pierro della Francesca "Flagellation" at Urbino, as befits this exquisite masterpiece, is a model of lucid and precise exposition as well as being an exciting exercise of scholarship. Informed with the intellectual rigour of Scholastic exegesis, it deserves to be placed with the classic readings of
Language: en
Pages: 304
Pages: 304
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
Language: en
Pages: 113
Pages: 113
Piero della Francesca's Madonna del Parto, a celebrated fifteenth-century Tuscan fresco in which the Virgin gestures to her partially open dress and her pregnant womb, is highly unusual in its iconography. Hubert Damisch undertakes an anthropological and historical analysis of an artwork he constructs as a childhood dream of one
Language: en
Pages: 154
Pages: 154
The fifteenth-century Italian artist Piero della Francesca painted a familiar world. Roads wind through hilly landscapes, run past farms, sheds, barns, and villages. This is the world in which Piero lived. At the same time, Piero’s paintings depict a world that is distant. The subjects of his pictures are often
Language: en
Pages: 98
Pages: 98
Prominent Renaissance scholars reveal new insights into Piero’s life and work based on a study of his exquisite small panel paintings.