The Cambridge companion to Piero della Francesca / edited by Jeryldene M. Wood.
Contributor(s): Wood, Jeryldene
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BookSeries: Cambridge companions to the history of art.Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002Description: xvi, 268 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0521652545; 0521654726 (pb.).Other title: Piero della Francesca.Subject(s): Piero, della Francesca, 1416?-1492 -- Criticism and interpretation | Art, Renaissance -- Italy | Art, Italian -- 15th centuryDDC classification: 759.5 PIE | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 759.5 PIE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00196391 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A great master of the early Renaissance, Piero della Francesca created paintings for ecclesiastics, confraternities, 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 a wide audience. Piero's treatises on mathematics and perspective also fascinate scholars in a wide range of disciplines. This 2002 Companion brings together essays that offer a synthesis and overview of Piero's life and accomplishments as a painter and theoretician. They explore a variety of themes associated with the artist's career, including the historical and religious circumstances surrounding Piero's altarpieces and frescoes; the politics underlying his portraits; the significance of clothing in his paintings; the influence of his theories on perspective and mathematics; and the artist's enduring fascination for modern painters and writers.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-262) and index.
Introduction / Jeryldene M. Wood -- The Misericordia polyptych: reflections on spiritual and visual culture in Sansepolero / Diane Cole Ahl -- The spiritual world of Piero's art / Timothy Verdon -- Piero's Legend of the true cross and the friars of San Francesco / Jeryldene M. Wood -- Piero's meditation on the nativity / Marilyn Aronberg Lavin -- Troppo belli e troppo eccellenti: observations on dress in the work of Piero della Francesca / Jane Bridgeman -- Piero della Francesca's ruler portraits / Joanna Woods-Marsden -- The renaissance Prospettiva: perspectives of the ideal city / Philip Jacks -- Piero's treatises: the mathematics of form / Margaret Daly Davis -- Piero della Francesca's mathematics / J.V. Field -- Piero's Parnassus of modern painters and poets / Anne B. Barriault.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of Illustrations (p. vii)
- Acknowledgments (p. xiii)
- Contributors (p. xv)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- 1 The Misericordia Polyptych: Reflections on Spiritual and Visual Culture in Sansepolcro (p. 14)
- 2 The Spiritual World of Piero's Art (p. 30)
- 3 Piero's Legend of the True Cross and the Friars of San Francesco (p. 51)
- 4 Piero's Meditation on the Nativity (p. 66)
- 5 "Troppo belli e troppo eccellenti": Observations on Dress in the Work of Piero della Francesca (p. 76)
- 6 Piero della Francesca's Ruler Portraits (p. 91)
- 7 The Renaissance Prospettiva: Perspectives of the Ideal City (p. 115)
- 8 Piero's Treatises: The Mathematics of Form (p. 134)
- 9 Piero della Francesca's Mathematics (p. 152)
- 10 Piero's Parnassus of Modern Painters and Poets (p. 171)
- Notes (p. 193)
- Selected Bibliography (p. 257)
- Index (p. 263)