Piero Di Cosimo: Fiction, Invention and Fantasia - Couverture rigide

Fermor, Sharon

 
9780948462368: Piero Di Cosimo: Fiction, Invention and Fantasia
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0948462361 ISBN 13 : 9780948462368
Editeur : Reaktion Books, 1993

Synopsis

This is the first book on Piero di Cosimo (1461-1521) widely considered one of the most intriguing figures of the Florentine Renaissance - to be written in English for over fifty years. Sharon Fermor presents new solutions to questions the function and iconography that have puzzled commentators hitherto, and examines Piero’s approach to pictorial composition and to gesture that contribute to the distinctiveness of his oeuvre. Of crucial importance in this fresh evaluation of Piero's career is the author’s explanation of the strategies employed by Vasari for his Life of Piero, written in the mid sixteenth-century. By exposing the misconceptions - many still influential today - that resulted from Vasari’s account, she reveals that even Piero’s most unusual paintings on mythological themes are in fact coherent and meaningful compositions, and not the product of an isolated eccentric at odds with the artistic community of his time.

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À propos de l?auteur

Sharon Fermor is Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Sussex.

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Éditeur
Reaktion Books
Date d'édition
1993
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0948462361
ISBN 13 
9780948462368
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
232
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Personne responsable
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