The Piero Della Francesca Trail with The Best Picture - Hardcover

John Pope-Hennessy; Aldous Huxley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1892145138 ISBN 13: 9781892145130

Publisher: Little Bookroom,U.S., 2002

Synopsis

This is the essential guide to the Piero masterpieces. For the first time, the book is illustrated by color reproductions of the paintings, and introduced by Huxley’s provocative “The Best Picture,” the essay that inspired Sir John to embark, in 1938 at age 20, on his own pilgrimage to the famed artworks.

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About the Author:

Sir John Pope-Hennessy, one of the greatest art historians of the twentieth century and perhaps its greatest authority on Italian Renaissance art, was born in 1913. He served as Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Director of the British Museum and Consultative Chairman of the Department of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as well as Professor of Fine Arts at New York University. His many publications are now standard works of reference and include An Introduction to Italian Sculpture, Italian Gothic Sculpture, Italian Renaissance Sculpture, Italian High Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture, Cellini, many monographs and his masterwork, Donatello. Sir John died in 1995.

Synopsis:

What makes a masterpiece? And what exactly does an art historian see and think about when he looks at a painting? In this classic guide to Piero della Francesca's work, John Pope-Hennessy takes the paintings and frescoes one by one, describing the stories they portray, their meticulous composition and the questions about them that remain unanswered. This volume also includes Aldous Huxley's 'The Best Picture', the famous essay that inspired Pope-Hennessy to seek out the luminous works that now constitute the pilgrimage known as The Piero della Francesca Trail.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little Bookroom,U.S.
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1892145138
• ISBN 13: 9781892145130
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 90