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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A lavish treatment of a fascinating painter,
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This review is from: Piero Della Francesca (Hardcover)
Piero's ouevre has never seen such handsome representation in book form. Razor-sharp, large-format illustrations, including details printed at full-bleed on forearm-wide pages, permit intimate inspection of works which even in person can sometimes only be viewed distantly in dim church-light.Quibbles include some tenuous conjectures about the development of the artist's thinking (which, if the author is taken at face value, includes the Zohar). It's too bad that more progress hadn't been made on the newly-restored Arezzo frescoes at the time of publication. But these aside, this is as definitive and gorgeous of a presentation of Piero as one could fairly ask for. Simply a beautiful book.
2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Rich in text,
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This review is from: Piero Della Francesca A&I (Art and Ideas) (Paperback)
This book seems to be more for reading than for looking at the art.
While I can't argue with the other reviewers about the writing quality (which they love, and I have yet to get into) I wish there were more images... and more close-ups, to study brushwork (for artists' sake). At any rate, to be fair, obviously this is not the goal of the author, so oh well... maybe I'll appreciate it more as time goes on. |
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Piero Della Francesca by della Francesca Piero (Hardcover - November 15, 1998)
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