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OverviewThis book is a new English version of the third edition (1963) of Longhi's seminal work on the Renaissance painter Piero della Francesca, with an introduction by Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Keith Christiansen. A major work by the most important Italian art historian of this century. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Roberto Longhi , David TabbatPublisher: Sheep Meadow Press,U.S. Imprint: Sheep Meadow Press,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 18.40cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 26.00cm Weight: 0.953kg ISBN: 9781878818775ISBN 10: 1878818775 Pages: 386 Publication Date: 27 June 2011 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Awaiting stock  Table of ContentsReviewsRoberto Longhi is the most brilliant Italian art historian of our century and a stylist of intoxicating powers . . . few of his very idiosyncratic works have been translated into English; but thanks to the enterprise of the Sheep Meadow Press, this situation is at last being remedied. --Francis Haskell, New York Review of Books Author InformationRobert Longhi (1890-1970) is regarded by the Italians as their most important conoisseur, critic and art historian; at the same time he is read and enjoyed for his great and magical gifts as a prose stylist. Little from Longhi's vast corpus has been translated into English. Three Studies, a book of his crucial essays Masolino and Masaccio, Caravaggio and His Forerunners, and Carlo Braccaesco, was published in 1995 by Sheep Meadow and now Piero della Francesca. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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