Piero della Francesca and the Invention of the Artist
Piero della Francesca and the Invention of the Artist

Author: Machtelt Brüggen Israëls

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Published: 2020-12-25

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1789143217

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As one of the most innovative and enlightened painters of the early Italian Renaissance, Piero della Francesca brought space, luminosity, and unparalleled subtlety to painting. In addition, Piero invented the role of the modern artist by becoming a traveler, a courtier, a geometrician, a patron, and much else besides. In this nuanced account of this great painter’s life and art, Machtelt Brüggen Israëls reconstructs how Piero came of age. Successfully demystifying the persistent notion of Piero’s art as enigmatic, she reveals the simple and stunning intentions behind his work.

Piero Della Francesca ; Translated by Edward Farrelly
Piero Della Francesca ; Translated by Edward Farrelly

Author: Carlo Bertelli

Publisher:

Published: 1992-01-01

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780300057034

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Includes a biography of the Italian painter, compares his work with that of other artists of his time, discusses his mathematic and geometric theories, and provides a complete catalog of his work

Piero Della Francesca
Piero Della Francesca

Author: Judith Veronica Field

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 9780300103427

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Studie over de wiskundige kennis van de renaissanceschilder (ca. 1416-1492) en over het belang van de exacte wetenschap in de betreffende kunstperiode.

The Piero Della Francesca Trail
The Piero Della Francesca Trail

Author: Sir John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9781892145130

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Thousands of travelers visit Tuscany and Umbria each year to follow the Piero della Francesca Trail. John Pope-Hennessy examines each work of Piero della Francesca. Included is Aldous Huxley's essay "The Best Picture, " which inspired Pope-Hennessy to seek out these paintings and frescoes. 56 photos.

Piero della Francesca: Personal Encounters
Piero della Francesca: Personal Encounters

Author: Christiansen, Keith

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 2014-01-13

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 0300199465

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Prominent Renaissance scholars reveal new insights into Piero’s life and work based on a study of his exquisite small panel paintings.

A Childhood Memory by Piero della Francesca
A Childhood Memory by Piero della Francesca

Author: Hubert Damisch

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 9780804734424

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Piero della Francesca's Madonna del Parto, a celebrated fifteenth-century Tuscan fresco in which the Virgin gestures to her partially open dress and her pregnant womb, is highly unusual in its iconography. Hubert Damisch undertakes an anthropological and historical analysis of an artwork he constructs as a childhood dream of one of humanity's oldest preoccupations, the mysteries of our origins, of our conception and birth. At once parodying and paying homage to Freud's seminal essay on Leonardo da Vinci, Damisch uses Piero's enigmatic painting to narrate our archaic memories. He shows that we must return to Freud because work in psychoanalysis and art has not solved the problem of what is being analyzed: in the triangle of author, work, and audience, where is the psychoanalytic component located?

Piero Della Francesca
Piero Della Francesca

Author: James R. Banker

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-02

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 0199609314

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Piecing together the story of Piero's artistic and mathematical achievements with the story of his life for the first time, a book that at last brings this fascinating Renaissance enigma to life.

From Filippo Lippi to Piero Della Francesca
From Filippo Lippi to Piero Della Francesca

Author: Pinacoteca di Brera

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1588391434

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In doing so, it examines the art of Florence in the 1440s and the work of, among others, Fra Filippo Lippi, Domenico Veneziano, Luca della Robbia, and Michelozzo."--BOOK JACKET.

Piero's Light
Piero's Light

Author: Larry Witham

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-11-15

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 1639360611

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In the tradition of The Swerve and Galileo's Daughter, Piero's Light reveals how art, religion and science came together at the dawn of the modern world in the paintings of one remarkable artist. An innovative painter in the early generation of Renaissance artists, Piero dell Francesca was also an expert on religious topics and a mathematician who wanted to use perspective and geometry to make painting a “true science.” Although only sixteen of Piero’s works survive, few art historians doubt his importance in the Renaissance. A 1992 conference of international experts meeting at the National Gallery of Art deemed Piero, “One of the most highly regarded painters of the early Renaissance, and one of the most respected artists of all time.” In recent years, the quest for Piero has continued among intrepid scholars, and Piero's Light uncovers the life of this remarkable artistic revolutionary and enduring legacy of the Italian Renaissance.

The Invention of Infinity
The Invention of Infinity

Author: Judith Veronica Field

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0198523947

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Fully illustrated, this story brings together the histories of arts and mathematics and shows how infinity at last acquired a precise mathematical meaning.