The Cambridge Companion to Piero della Francesca (Cambridge Companions to the History of Art)
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"The Cambridge University Press is to be congratulated for making available in English these fine studies of great and influential early Italian Renaissance artists...will be the standard by which other works on these artists will be judged." Aaron W. Godfrey, Stony Brook University
"A wide-ranging and stimulating compendium. [Essays] are written by eminent scholars and yield a rich picture of Piero's life and art." Confraternitas
"Authors have commendably reviewed a vast literature on the painter, and several of them offer interesting interpretations of his works." Sixteenth Century Journal
Book Description
As a great master of the early Renaissance, Piero della Francesca created paintings for ecclesiastics, confaternities, and illustrious nobles throughout the Italian peninsula. Since the early twentieth century, the rational space, abstract designs, lucid illumination and naturalistic details of his pictures have attracted wide audiences. Piero's treatises on mathematics and perspective fascinate scholars in a wide range of disciplines. This Companion brings together new essays that offer a synthesis and overview of Piero's life and accomplishments as a painter and theoretician.
The Cambridge Companion to Piero della Francesca (Cambridge Companions to the History of Art),Jeryldene M. Wood,Cambridge University Press,0521654726,1416?-1492,15th century,Art,Art & Art Instruction,Art, Italian,Art, Renaissance,Criticism and interpretation,History - General,Individual Artist,Italy,Piero,,della Francesca,,Art / General,History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600,Individual artists,Painting & paintings
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