Piero Della Francesca - Hardcover

Calvesi, Maurizio; Andrew Ellis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 084782148X ISBN 13: 9780847821488

Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications, 1998

Synopsis

More than any other Italian fifteenth-century painter, Piero della Francesca was responsible for the development of Renaissance painting in Florence, and its crucial dissemination throughout Italy. His work represents a synthesis of Italian painting, with its focus on perspective and space - and Netherlandish painting, which stressed light and natural phenomena, and he was one of the first to develop architectural and spacial perspective. This beautifully illustrated book offers a full-scale chronological and critical account of Piero's paintings. From his formative years in Florence, when he worked with Domenico Veneziano in the church of Sant'Egidio, to his seminal mid-career work in the church of San Francesco in Arezzo, and his later work in Rome, Perugia, and Urbino, these pages capture Piero's extraordinary palette and the remarkably expressive faces of his subjects.

About this title

Synopsis:

More than any other Italian 15th century painter, Piero della Francesca was responsible for the development of Renaissance painting in Florence, and its crucial dissemination throughout Italy. This beautifully illustrated book offers a full-scale chronological and critical account of Piero's paintings.

About the Author:

Maurizio Calvesi is professor of art history at the University of Rome, and is the author of numerous articles and catalogs.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 084782148X
• ISBN 13: 9780847821488
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248