166 Pages
by
Routledge
166 Pages
by
Routledge
166 Pages
by
Routledge
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The fifteenth-century Italian artist Piero della Francesca painted a familiar world. Roads wind through hilly landscapes, run past farms, sheds, barns, and villages. This is the world in which Piero lived. At the same time, Piero’s paintings depict a world that is distant. The subjects of his pictures are often Christian and that means that their setting is the Holy Land, a place Piero had never... Read more
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction: Life and Work
1 Before the Work
2 The Time of the Work
3 The Site In the Work
4 After the Work
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Joost Keizer is Assistant Professor and Director of Curatorial Studies at the University of Groningen. He has written a monograph, Michelangelo and the Politics of Art, co-edited a book on vernacular art and literature, and has published essays on Leonardo, Michelangelo, Dürer, Renaissance concepts of style, and Renaissance portraiture.
