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Piero Di Cosimo

Fiction, Invention and Fantasia
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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.

Author Biography

Sharon Fermor is Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Sussex.
Release date NZ
April 1st, 1993
Author
Audiences
  • General (US: Trade)
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Undergraduate
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Illustrations
55 colour and 44 b&w illustrations
Imprint
Reaktion Books
Pages
192
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Dimensions
217x287x27
ISBN-13
9780948462368
Product ID
1838311

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