- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Verso Press USA; 2nd Revised edition edition (Nov 23 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1859847315
- ISBN-13: 978-1859847312
- Product Dimensions: 22.2 x 16.4 x 2.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 730 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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. . . includes much valuable research on the involvement of Piero's probable patrons in the great political, religious and cultural events of the time. -- London Review of Books
An excellent translation of a brilliant and stimulating thesis, well-produced and richly illustrated. -- Hugh Trevor Roper, The Listener
An excellent translation of a brilliant and stimulating thesis, well-produced and richly illustrated. -- Hugh Trevor Roper, The Listener
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Sifting the available evidence, Carlo Ginzburg builds up a vivid portrait of Piero della Francesca's patrons and convincingly explains the contemporary intrigues resonant in his paintings. This new edition includes additional material by Ginzburg dealing with the work of Roberto Longhi, the dating of the Arezzo Cycle and the rediscovery of della Francesca in the 20th century.
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The enigma of Carlo
Jun 11 2001
Format:Hardcover
An immense pleasure! Carlo Ginsburg reminds us more than once that he is not an art historian, but an historian. As such, his approach to paintings such as Piero della Francesca's "Flagellation" which to our eyes are difficult if not unfathomable iconographically, is not bound to the orthodoxies of specialist methodology. If this sounds heady and dense, it is. This is not a book for the casual admirer of Renaissance painting because much of the suspense(and it is suspenseful) is reading the author's discrediting of other interpretations(these are often amusing), suggesting the roadmap he will take to circumvent the errors of the previous historians, then elegantly exhuming the necessary evidence and reasoning to produce-voila- a fresh, impressively founded exegisis before our very eyes. One marvels at the depth and breadth of cultural knowledge that is this historian's primary resource, and facility with archives. But there is another dimension to this book. As one reads, one understands that this is the work of contemporary humanist, and the source of his insights is perhaps this empathy, if not kinship with his subject, whether patron or artist.
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The enigma of Carlo
Jun 10 2001
Format:Hardcover
An immense pleasure! Carlo Ginsburg reminds us more than once that he is not an art historian, but an historian. As such, his approach to paintings such as Piero della Francesca's "Flagellation" which to our eyes are difficult if not unfathomable iconographically, is not bound to the orthodoxies of specialist methodology. If this sounds heady and dense, it is. This is not a book for the casual admirer of Renaissance painting because much of the suspense(and it is suspenseful) is reading the author's discrediting of other interpretations(these are often amusing), suggesting the roadmap he will take to circumvent the errors of the previous historians, then elegantly exhuming the necessary evidence and reasoning to produce-voila- a fresh, impressively founded exegisis before our very eyes. One marvels at the depth and breadth of cultural knowledge that is this historian's primary resource, and facility with archives. But there is another dimension to this book. As one reads, one understands that this is the work of contemporary humanist, and the source of his insights is perhaps this empathy, if not kinship with his subject, whether patron or artist.
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