Product Description

The Rizzoli Art Classics series brings you Piero della Francesca, Titian, Caravaggio, and Velázquez, all in beautifully illustrated monographs, offering high-quality reproductions in compact, accessible volumes. These books feature a literary introduction by a renowned art historian, a thoroughly researched essay, and captions describing the artist's most famous canvases. A useful appendix section includes an extensive chronology of the artist's life and important historical events of his time; a compilation of writings by well-known historians, insight into each painter's stylistic development; a geographical table detailing the location of each painting in the book; and a concise bibliography with suggested further readings.With authoritative text by leading art historians, these lavishly illustrated editions provide fresh insight into the art and lives of some of the most fascinating artists in the history of painting.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1129249 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-28
• Released on: 2006-03-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Customer Reviews

Piero della Francesca
Often art historians are very knowledgable about their subject, but their ability to write borders on incompitence. This book is horribly written, and the preface is really just a joke. In attempts to sound erudite and profound the authors often sound foolish. The text abounds with pretentious diction and creates quagmires out of simple subjects. It's simply bad writing. "The Masterpieces" section isn't so bad and is perhaps the only redeeming part in the text. The illustrations are very good though, and just for them the book is worth the ten dollars. It's a nice introduction to the artist.