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The Realism of Piero della Francesca (Paperback)
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The Realism of Piero della Francesca (Paperback)
Series: Visual Culture in Early Modernity
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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
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.
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