{"product_id":"the-realism-of-piero-della-joost-keizer-9781472461315","title":"The Realism of Piero Della Francesca","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe fifteenth-century Italian artist Piero della Francesca painted a familiar world. Roads wind through hilly landscapes, run past farms, sheds, barns, and villages. This is the world in which Piero lived. At the same time, Piero's paintings depict a world that is distant. The subjects of his pictures are often Christian and that means that their setting is the Holy Land, a place Piero had never visited. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Realism of Piero della Francesca studies this paradoxical aspect of Piero's art. It tells the story of an artist who could think of the local churches, palaces, and landscapes in and around his hometown of Sansepolcro as miraculously built replicas of the monuments of Jerusalem. Piero's application of perspective, to which he devoted a long treatise, was meant to convince his contemporaries that his paintings report on things that Piero actually observed. Piero's methodical way of painting seems to have offered no room for his own fantasy. His art looks deliberately styleless. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book uncovers a world in which painting needed to validate itself by cultivating the illusion that it reported on things observed instead of things imagined by the artist. Piero's painting claimed truth in a world of increasing uncertainties.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joost Keizer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1472461312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781472461315\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/20\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 154\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.80h x 7.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Joost Keizer","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48113573691647,"sku":"9781472461315","price":190.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4a24610a-c6d0-4df9-841e-cffc143c4e81.jpg?v=1769615904","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-realism-of-piero-della-joost-keizer-9781472461315","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}