Author: WITHAM, LARRY (1952-)
Title: Piero's light: in search of Piero della Francesca: a Renaissance painter and the revolution in art, science, and religion / Larry Witham
Description: New York: Pegasus Books 2014. 1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xxiv. 354 pages. 16 pages of plates: color illustrations; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-342) and index. Contents; The Renaissance's apprentice -- Florentine crossroads -- A Platonic painter of light -- Strange legends in fresco -- Piero goes to Rome -- The aging geometer -- After the Renaissance -- Piero rediscovered -- Piero and modernity -- The eyes of science -- A celebrated life. Subjects; Piero della Francesca 1416?-1492. Piero della Francesca 1416?-1492 - Criticism and interpretation. Painters - Italy - Biography. Art. Renaissance - Italy. Platonists - Italy - History - To 1500. Italy - Intellectual life - 1268-1559. Weight in Kg appr.:

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