The Piero Della Francesca Trail by John Pope-Hennessy

The Piero Della Francesca Trail by John Pope-Hennessy

After four centuries of almost complete neglect, Piero della Francesca is now one of the best known and best loved of all Renaissance painters - to such an extent that the route from one work to another has become the tourists' "Piero della Francesca Trail". Sir John Pope-Hennessy takes a fresh look at the facts of Piero's career and the significance of his paintings. A clear chronology establishes the probable sequence of his activities in Arezzo, Borgo San Sepolcro, Monterchi and Urbino. In assessing the greatness of Piero's art, we need to concentrate on the works themselves: their structure, their theoretical basis, their use of mathematical research and the visual sensibility that was peculiar to Piero's own psychology. Only then shall we see them for what they really are.

Bernard Berenson est un historien, critique et collectionneur specialiste des arts visuels de la Renaissance italienne. Diplome d'Harvard en 1887, il entame un periple en Italie, ou s'eveille son interet pour l'art de la Renaissance. Quelques annees plus tard, il emmenage dans la Villa I Tatti, desormais le siege du Centre de l'histoire de la Renaissance de l'universite d'Harvard. Il s'affirme rapidement, grace a des publications telles que The Drawings of the Florentine Painters (1903), Essays in the Study of Sienese Painting (1918) et Les Peintres italiens de la Renaissance (1927, Gallimard) comme un critique d'art majeur et acquiert une renommee mondiale, etant employe comme expert par le celebre marchand d'art Joseph Duveen. Louis Gillet, an Ecole normale graduate, Catholic intellectual and former curator of the Musee de Chaalis who was inducted into the French Academy in 1935, was a friend of Paul Claudel. He penned studies on the history of art (La Peinture des XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles, La Peinture francaise. Moyen Age et Renaissance, La Peinture de Poussin a David) and monographies on Raphael, Watteau and Monet. He wrote eloquent articles which appeared in many periodicals and journals, most notably in La Revue des Deux Mondes, to which he devoted some forty years of his working life involving areas of study in which he had an impassioned interest: art and literature. He was the first author to make the writings of James Joyce accessible to the general public.

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ISBN 13	9780500277034
ISBN 10	0500277036
Titel	The Piero Della Francesca Trail
Autor	John Pope-Hennessy
Serie	Walter Neurath Memorial Lectures
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Thames & Hudson Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	1993-07-12
Seitenanzahl	64
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