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~ Roberto Longhi (Author), David Tabbat (Translator), Keith Christiansen (Contributor)
Key Phrases: storia patria, portrait diptych, ovum struthionis, San Sepolcro, Roberto Longhi, The Art of Piero (more...)
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Among the most significant achievements of the great Italian art historian, critic, and connoisseur Longhi (1890-1970) is his pioneering study of early Renaissance painter Piero della Francesca. The book was published in 1927 and refurbished by the author in 1950 and 1962, but Longhi's often daunting Italian has until now resisted satisfactory translation. Tabbat, who also contributed to the translation of Longhi's Three Studies, has not only made this provocative and mesmerizing work available to an English-language readership but also most intelligently updated the author's scholarship and illuminated his methodology. Nevertheless, the almost exclusively formalistic approach employed by Longhi in his scrutiny of Piero's work and the evocative and sometimes elusive style of his exposition will almost certainly confound readers not already familiar with this art. The rejection of a historical context, a lack of interest in content, and overstated insistence on the centrality of Piero to the history of European painting will also doubtless trouble a contemporary readership. Although this volume is manifestly not required for nonspecialized collections, any serious art history collection worth its salt should make it a mandatory acquisition.
Robert Cahn, Fashion Inst. of Technology, New York
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Roberto Longhi is "the most brilliant Italian art historian of our century and a stylist of intoxicating powers . . . few of his very idiosyncratic works have been translated into English; but thanks to the enterprise of the Sheep Meadow Press, this situation is at last being remedied."--Francis Haskell, New York Review of Books

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  • Paperback: 386 pages
  • Publisher: Sheep Meadow (January 31, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1931357080
  • ISBN-13: 978-1931357081
  • Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.9 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars STILL THE BEST BOOK ON PIERO, April 18, 2003
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This remains the best book on Piero della Francesca, one of the world's greatest artists. It has influenced many books but still has no equal--after almost 80 years! Great it is back in print.
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