Piero della Francesca Artist and Man 1st Edition by James Banker ISBN 0199609314 978-0199609314
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ISBN 10: 0199609314
ISBN 13: 978-0199609314
Author: James Banker
Largely neglected for the four centuries after his death, the fifteenth century Italian artist Piero della Francesca is now seen to embody the fullest expression of the Renaissance perspective painter, raising him to an artistic stature comparable with that of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.
But who was Piero, and how did he become the person and artist that he was? Until now, in spite of the great interest in his work, these questions have remained largely unanswered. Piero della Francesca: Artist and Man integrates the story of Piero’s artistic and mathematical achievements with the full chronicle of his life for the first time, fortified by the discovery of over one hundred previously unknown documents, most unearthed by the author himself.
The book presents us with Piero’s friends, family, and collaborators, all set against the social background of the various cities and courts in which he lived – from the Tuscan commune of Sansepolcro in which he grew up, to Renaissance Florence, Ferrara, Ancona, Rimini, Rome, Arezzo, and Urbino, and eventually back to his home town for the final years of his life. As Banker shows, the cultural contexts in which Piero lived are crucial for understanding both the man and his paintings.
What emerges is a thoroughly intriguing Renaissance individual, firmly embedded in his social milieu, but forging an historic identity through his profound artistic and mathematical achievements.
Piero della Francesca Artist and Man 1st Table of contents:
1 Piero’s Formation in Sansepolcro
Sansepolcro
The Della Francesca Family
Piero as Apprentice and Assistant
The Baptism of Christ
2 In Search of Piero, the Persistent Traveler
Piero North of Tuscany
Piero in Sansepolcro in 1445: The Misericordia Contract
Ferrara
Piero in Ancona
3 Piero at the Court of Sigismondo Malatesta in Rimini
Jacopo Anastagi
Piero’s New Stage: The Court of Sigismondo
Saint Jerome and a Penitent
The Portrait of Sigismondo Malatesta
Sigismondo Malatesta Before His Patron Saint Sigismundus
4 Piero in Arezzo: The Legend of the True Cross
The Bacci Family and the Friars and Church of San Francesco
Dating the Painting of the Arezzo Frescoes
Looking at the Arezzo Frescoes
Choices in the High Altar Chapel
Piero’s Narration of The Legend of the True Cross
Technical and Conceptual Accomplishments at Arezzo
5 Creating the Sacred: Piero della Francesca’s Altarpiece for the Confraternity of the Madonna della Misericordia
The Confraternity of Santa Maria della Misericordia
The Pichi Family
The Misericordia Commission
The Misericordia Altarpiece
The Pace of Painting and Payments
6 Greek Geometry in Rome and Piero’s Trattato d’abaco
Francesco del Borgo and Greek Geometry
Piero in Rome, 1458–59
Piero’s Treatise on Abaco
7 Piero’s Return to Patria and Family
Workshops of the Della Francesca Family and Piero’s Presence in Sansepolcro
Madonna del Parto
Saint Louis of Toulouse
Saint Julian
The Resurrection of Christ
8 An Arezzo Interlude
Two Lost Processional Banners
Saint Mary Magdalene and Other Commissions in Arezzo
9 The Practice of Perspective: The Sant’Antonio and Sant’Agostino Altarpieces and The Flagellation of Christ
The Sant’Antonio Altarpiece of Perugia
The Sant’Agostino Altarpiece
The Flagellation of Christ
Jacopo Anastagi
10 Piero in Urbino in the Early 1470s
Federico da Montefeltro
The Uffizi Diptych of Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza
11 Piero in Sansepolcro
The Fresco of the Glorious Virgin of the Badia
Piero as Builder
Hercules
Marco, Piero, and their Sister Vera
12 Piero in Urbino
Madonna and Child with Saints and Angels
The Senigallia Madonna and Child
The Treatise On Perspective in Painting
The Composition of On Perspective in Painting
The Contents of On Perspective in Painting
The Audience for the Treatise
The Relationship of the Treatise to Piero’s Paintings
13 The Persuasiveness of Paternal Authority
The Lost Misericordia Fresco
The Williamstown Madonna and Child with Four Angels
Piero’s Scriptorium and the Four Copies of On Perspective in Painting
Piero and Archimedes
Piero’s Political Activities
Family Service
14 Piero in the Last Decade of His Life
The Little Book on the Five Regular Bodies
The Nativity of Christ
Piero in his Final Years
Piero’s Preparation for Death
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Picture Acknowledgements
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