The Realism of Piero della Francesca - 9780367359737

Taylor & Francis

The Realism of Piero della FrancescaAuthor(s): Joost Keizer\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367359737, 978-0367359737\nSynopsis\nThe 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, Pieros 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. \n\nThe Realism of Piero della Francesca studies this paradoxical aspect of Pieros 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. Pieros application of perspective, to which he devoted a long treatise, was meant to convince his con.