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      The Realism of Piero della Francesca
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      The Realism of Piero della Francesca

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      The Realism of Piero della Francesca book

      ByJoost Keizer
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2018
      eBook Published 30 April 2016
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315553641
      Pages 166
      eBook ISBN 9781315553641
      Subjects Arts, Humanities
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      Keizer, J. (2018). The Realism of Piero della Francesca (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315553641

      ABSTRACT

      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 visited.

      The Realism of Piero della Francesca studies this paradoxical aspect of Piero’s art. It tells the story of an artist who could think of the local churches, palaces, and landscapes in and around his hometown of Sansepolcro as miraculously built replicas of the monuments of Jerusalem. Piero’s application of perspective, to which he devoted a long treatise, was meant to convince his contemporaries that his paintings report on things that Piero actually observed. Piero’s methodical way of painting seems to have offered no room for his own fantasy. His art looks deliberately styleless.

      This book uncovers a world in which painting needed to validate itself by cultivating the illusion that it reported on things observed instead of things imagined by the artist. Piero’s painting claimed truth in a world of increasing uncertainties.

       

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |22 pages

      Introduction

      Life and work

      chapter 1|22 pages

      Before the work

      chapter 2|29 pages

      The time of the work

      chapter 3|25 pages

      The site in the work

      chapter 4|26 pages

      After the work

      chapter |2 pages

      Conclusion

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