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Author Israëls, Machtelt, author.

Title Piero della Francesca and the invention of the artist / Machtelt Brüggen Israëls
Published London : Reaktion Books Ltd, 2020
©2020

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Description 1 online resource (368 pages) : color illustrations
Series Renaissance lives
Renaissance lives.
Contents Pupil -- Traveller -- Rhetorician -- Master -- Citizen -- Devotee -- Courtier -- Scientist -- Patron -- Monarch
Summary As one of the most innovative and enlightened painters of the early Italian Renaissance, Piero della Francesca knew how to capture the moment. He brought space, luminosity and unparalleled subtlety to painting, during an era that was aware it was forging epochal change. Piero invented the role of the modern artist by becoming a traveller, a courtier, a geometrician, a patron and much else, and his pursuits were taken up by countless authors and artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Giorgio Vasari. In this nuanced account of his life and art, Machtelt Bruggen Israels 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-344) and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 27, 2021)
Subject Piero, della Francesca, 1416?-1492 -- Criticism and interpretation
Piero, della Francesca, 1416?-1492
Painting, Renaissance -- Italy
Painting, Italian -- 15th century
Art, Italian -- 15th century.
Art -- General.
Art -- History -- General.
Art -- History -- Renaissance.
Art -- Individual Artists -- Monographs.
Art, Italian
Painting, Italian
Painting, Renaissance
Italy
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Piero, della Francesca, 1416?-1492, artist.
ISBN 9781789143225
1789143225