Piero's light : in search of Piero della Francesca : a Renaissance painter and the revolution in art, science, and religion /

Piero's light : in search of Piero della Francesca : a Renaissance painter and the revolution in art, science, and religion /

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Author / Creator:	Witham, Larry, 1952- author.
Edition:	First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2014
Description:	xxiv, 354 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Piero, -- della Francesca, -- 1416?-1492 -- Criticism and interpretation. Piero, -- della Francesca, -- 1416?-1492. Piero, -- della Francesca, -- 1416?-1492. Painters -- Italy -- Biography. Painters. Italy. Biography. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9952454

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ISBN:	9781605984940 (cloth) 1605984949 (cloth)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-342) and index.
Summary:	An innovative painter in the early generation of renaissance artists and one of the great enigmas of art history, Piero Della Francesca was also a knowledgable scholar on religious topics and a mathematician who wanted to use perspective and geometry to make painting a "true science." Piero lived in a tumultuous age of princes and popes, soldiers and schisms. A skilled geometer, he was also part of the philosophical revival of platonism, an ancient worldview that would shape our modern revolutions in art, religion, and science. In 'Piero's Light', Larry Witham presents Piero not only as a vivid character in his own time, but as an integral piece of our artistic legacy that takes us from past visions of belief, beauty, and knowledge to a secular age, a time when science is redefining our mental experiences. Although only sixteen of Piero's works survive, few art historians doubt his importance in the renaissance.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Prologue: Discovering Piero
Part I.
Chapter 1. The Renaissance's Apprentice
Chapter 2. Florentine Crossroads
Chapter 3. A Platonic Painter of Light
Chapter 4. Strange Legends in Fresco
Chapter 5. Piero Goes to Rome
Chapter 6. The Aging Geometer
Part II.
Chapter 7. After the Renaissance
Chapter 8. Piero Rediscovered
Chapter 9. Piero and Modernity
Chapter 10. The Eyes of Science
Chapter 11. A Celebrated Life
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Illustration Credits
Notes
Index