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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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Keith Christiansen , Roberto Longhi , David TabbatPublisher: Sheep Meadow Press,U.S. Imprint: Sheep Meadow Press,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.726kg ISBN: 9781931357081ISBN 10: 1931357080 Pages: 386 Publication Date: 02 March 2009 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviews"""With the exception of Walter Pater, it is difficult to think of a critic whose work is so close to the art it embraces that it becomes itself a kind of art.... With Longhi, the scholar and the poet are seamlessly fused, resulting in prose that is palpable and radiant as the Renaissance paintings he describes so meticulously: an object of rare beauty indeed."" JOHN ASHBERY""" With the exception of Walter Pater, it is difficult to think of a critic whose work is so close to the art it embraces that it becomes itself a kind of art.... With Longhi, the scholar and the poet are seamlessly fused, resulting in prose that is palpable and radiant as the Renaissance paintings he describes so meticulously: an object of rare beauty indeed. JOHN ASHBERY Author InformationRoberto Longhi (1890-1970) is regarded by Italians as their most important art critic, art historian, and prose stylist of this century, with unsurpassed powers of observation and description. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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