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| The Enigma of Piero: Piero della Francesca | 
 enlarge | Author: Carlo Ginzburg
Creators: Martin Ryle, Kate Soper
Publisher: Verso
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1290897
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 958
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 1859847315
Dewey Decimal Number: 759.5
EAN: 9781859847312
ASIN: 1859847315
Publication Date: December 2000
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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 June 11, 2001
16 out of 18 found this review helpful
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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