| Description |
366 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm |
| Contents |
Beginnings: a biography of Piero di Lorenzo Ubaldini -- Between reality and fantasia: Piero's portrait types -- The fabulist smiles: Piero as storyteller in the mythical favole -- Of man and chimeras: a return to the 'early history of man' -- Diversifications: continuity and innovation in the early religious works (1480-1500 and 1500-10) -- Final transformations: the late altarpieces (1510-22) -- A willow among tall oaks: Piero's artistic legacy reconsidered -- Appendix -- Corpus of documents pertaining to the life and artistic activity of Piero di Cosimo -- Chronological list of secure dates for Piero di Cosimo -- Topographical list of Piero di Cosimo's paintings -- Attributed works -- The problem portraits -- Lost or unidentified works |
| Summary |
"In this book, Dennis Geronimus overcomes the scarcity of information about the artist's life and works - only one of the nearly sixty known works by Piero is actually signed and dated - and pieces together, from extensive archival research, the most complete and accurate account of Piero's life and career ever written. The book fills gaps in the artist's biography and along the way, sheds light on the social, literary, and artistic traditions that stimulated a demand for his novel work. The author provides intensive analysis of Piero's protean imagery, discusses his various patrons and commissions, and lists his extant, lost, and uncertainly-attributed works."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Piero, di Cosimo, 1462-1521 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Painting, Italian -- 15th century.
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Painting, Italian -- 16th century.
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Renaissance.
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Fifteenth century.
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| Author |
Piero, di Cosimo, 1462-1521.
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| LC no. |
2006010552 |
| ISBN |
0300109113 cloth alkaline paper |
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