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Piero and Sansepolcro: the case of the Nativity
Reconstruction of the history, artistic and iconographic, of Piero della Francesca’s panel painting housed at the National Gallery in London. For the first time, the book publishes the articles that The Times devoted to the Nativity, from its arrival in England (in 1861) until the 1980s.
Sabbioni Editore, 2010
Page layout: 120 pagine + 4
Format: 211x297mm
Book index: Preface. Introduction. Piero di Benedetto de’ Franceschi from Borgo San Sepolcro: traces of an existential “pilgrimage”, from birth to the “Nativity”. Piero’s precedents: a journey in search of the masters of “Nativity”, 1300-1470. The influence of the Flemish. A curious preview in the “Sant’Agostino” of Lisbon. The case of the “Nativity”, from Sansepolcro to London; in England, 1861-2009; analysis of the table: the characters and animals; the gentlewomen in Piero’s paintings; the architecture, the landscape and Il Borgo. Around the “Nativity”, today; the fabrics, the jewels, the photographs, the music, the paintings and the studies of contemporary artists; the “Nativity” in the Renaissance procession of Sansepolcro; creation of an extraordinary exhibition. Documentary appendix: articles from The Times, 1874-1981. Sources and bibliography.