Introduction
1: Piero's Formation in Sansepolcro
2: Piero the Incessant Learner and Traveler, 1439-1450
3: Piero in the Court of Sigismondo Malatesta in Rimini
4: Piero in Arezzo: The Legend of the True Cross
5: The Confraternity and the Altarpiece of Madonna della
Misericordia
6: Greek Geometry in Rome and Piero's Trattato d'abaco
7: Piero's Return to Patria and Family
8: An Arezzo Interlude
9: The Practice of Perspective: The Sant'Antonio and Sant'Agostino
Altarpieces and the Flagellation
10: Piero della Francesca in Urbino in the Early 1470s
11: Piero in Sansepolcro, 1472-1475
12: Piero in Urbino in 1475-1476
13: The Persuasiveness of Paternal Authority, 1477-81
14: Piero in the Last Decade of His Life
Conclusion
Chronology of Piero's Life and Work
Index
James R. Banker is professor emeritus of Italian history at North
Carolina State University, and lives for most of the year in
Florence and Sansepolcro. An expert on the life and works of Piero
della Francesca and Sassetta, two artists closely associated with
San Sepolcro, his research has emphasized the role of lay religion
in the lives of early Renaissance Italians, and the role of
patrons, lay and clerical, in the paintings of both Sassetta and
Piero. Author of
numerous articles on Renaissance themes, his books include Death in
the Community: Memorialization and Confraternities in an Italian
Commune and, most recently, The Culture of San Sepolcro During
the
Youth of Piero della Francesca (2003).
Thanks to Banker we have an enormously clearer idea of just how
common it was for Renaissance people to stay connected and use
their connections in new places and for new ventures.
*Gary Radke, Syracuse University, The American Historical
Review*
[A] remarkable biography ... This compact, clearly written book
rescues Piero from the dangerous fate of being an enigma.
*Caroline Campbell, Burlington Magazine*
A vitally important contribution to Piero studies.
*Julian Bell, New York Review of Books*
Banker's scholarship and research are impeccable and should be
celebrated.
*Literary Review*
Fascinating insight.
*Good Book Guide*
making compelling claims about the dating of certain works, and
offering a new interpretation of the enigmatic Flagellation of
Christ.
*Apollo*
insightful
*Art & Collections*
This publication is beautifully produced and is a joy to read.
*The Art Newspaper*
a carefully argued, highly accessible volume ... [Banker]
masterfully summarizes and analyzes the sometimes daunting art
historical and technical scholarship on Piero's visual and written
works, offering a compelling portrait of the artist and the world
in which he lived.
*Gary Radke, American Historical Review*
James R. Banker's magisterial study, Piero della Francesca: Artist
and Man, represents a major contribution to the scholarship on this
Renaissance painter and mathematician and has a grounded keel and
quiet strength that is evocative of the timeless quality of Piero's
paintings themselves ... Banker's study serves as the culmination
of a lifetime of scholarly work that will be welcomed by serious
readers looking for a detailed study of one of the most complex of
Renaissance artists, Piero della Francesca.
*Journal of Modern History*
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