The complete paintings of Piero della Francesca / introduction by Peter Murray ; notes and catalogue by Pierluigi de Vecchi.

Main entry:

Piero, della Francesca, 1416?-1492.

Title & Author:

The complete paintings of Piero della Francesca / introduction by Peter Murray ; notes and catalogue by Pierluigi de Vecchi.

Publication:

Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1985.

Description:

111 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Series:

Penguin classics of world art.

Notes:
Translation of: L'opera completa di Piero della Francesca.
Includes indexes.
Includes bibliographical references (page 82).
Notes and catalogue translated from the Italian.

Summary:

Piero della Francesca ... came from Sansepolcro, near Florence, and is now, after centuries of neglect, among our most popular painters. He worked very slowly, and was a gifted mathematician as well as painter, bringing to this art a combination of science and spirit, gravity and brilliant light, unique in the history of painting. His contemporary Pacioli called him the Monarch of painting', and his masterpieces, particularly the frescoes at the Church of S. Francesco in Arezzo, are worlds in themselves; not dramatic or emotionally demonstrative, but containing a completeness of perspective, a richness of colour and meaning that still strike us as revelatory. As one modern critic put it, 'No artist - without pathetic appeal, without recourse to sentimental means, restricting himself to a scrupulous impersonality - has ever achieved work so complex, so absolute, so valid, so convincing; no artist has ever found a grander, more changeless kingdom.--Back cover.

ISBN:

0140086471
9780140086478

Subject:

Piero, della Francesca, 1416?-1492.
Piero della Francesca, ca.1420-1492.
Italian paintings Piero, della Francesca - Catalogues

Added entries:

De Vecchi, Pierluigi.
Murray, Peter, 1920-1992
Penguin classics of world art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 136911
Call No.: ID:86-B9023
Status: Available

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