Larry Witham (Author)
In the tradition of The Swerve and Galileo's Daughter, Piero's Light reveals how art, religion and science came together at the dawn of the modern world in the paintings of one remarkable artist In the heart of Tuscany, Piero della Francesca became a painter and mathematician at the dawn of the Renaissance, revealing his innovative mind in some of the best known images from that period, and in his unusual writings on geometry. Yet as a personality, Piero remains a mystery. He leaves an enigmatic legacy that ranges from the merging of religion and mathematics to his use of perspective to make painting a "true science." In this engaging narrative, Larry Witham transports us to Piero's tumultuous age, a world of princes and popes, soldiers and schisms. Piero's Light also reveals how he was part of the philosophical revival of Platonism, an ancient worldview that would shape art, religion, and science's transition toward modernity. Just sixteen of Piero's paintings survive, but these images and his writings would fuel some of the greatest art historical debates of all time. Through Witham's wide research, Piero emerges as a figure who marks a turning point in Western culture. Our past understanding of faith, beauty, and knowledge has been radically altered by a secular age, and the story of Piero helps us understand how this has taken place. The search for Piero has continued among both intrepid scholars and art lovers of all kinds, and it is no wonder: few artists in history take us as deeply into the intellectual excitement of the Renaissance as Piero della Francesca.
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Principe, Lawrence M.;
(2007)
Chymists and Chymistry: Studies in the History of Alchemy and Early Modern Chemistry
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Cattaneo, Angela;
(2003)
God in His World: The Earthly Paradise in Fra Mauro's Mappamundi Illuminated by Leonardo Bellini
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Joost-Gaugier, Christiane L.;
(2009)
Pythagoras and Renaissance Europe: Finding Heaven
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Potkowski, Edward;
(2006)
Gott, Teufel und Schrift. Vorstellungen zu den heiligen und dämonischen Wirkungen der Schrift im Polen des 15.--16. Jahrhunderts
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King, David A.;
(2007)
Astrolabes and Angels, Epigrams and Enigmas: From Regiomontanus' Acrostic for Cardinal Bessarion to Piero della Francesca's Flagellation of Christ
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Thierry Belleguic;
(2013)
Ordre et désordre du monde: enquête sur les météores, de la Renaissance à l'âge moderne
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Seidel, Linda;
(2007)
Visual Representation as Instructional Text: Jan van Eyck and The Ghent Altarpiece
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Roberta Ballestriero;
Owen Burke;
Francesco Galassi;
(2019)
Ceroplastics: The Art of Wax
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Kim Williams;
Cosimo Monteleone;
(2021)
Daniele Barbaro’s Perspective of 1568
(/isis/citation/CBB872172527/)
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Sorci, Alessandra;
(2001)
“La forza de le linee”: Prospettiva e stereometria in Piero della Francesca
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Andersen, Kirsti;
(2007)
The Geometry of an Art: The History of the Mathematical Theory of Perspective from Alberti to Monge
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Field, J.V.;
(1995)
Piero della Francesca and the “distance point method” of perspective construction
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Andersen, Kirsti;
(1992)
Perspective and the plan and elevation technique, in particular in the work by Piero della Francesca
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Francesca, Piero della;
(1995)
Libellus de quinque corporibus regularibus. Corredato della versione volgare di Luca Pacioli. Volume 1: Testi e note. Volume 2: Disegni. Volume 3: Urb. lat. 632
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Gamwell, Lynn;
(2002)
Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science, and the Spiritual
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Giusti, Enrico;
(1991)
L'algebra nel Trattato d'abaco di Piero della Francesca: Osservazioni e congetture
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Field, J.V.;
(1993)
Mathematics and the craft of painting: Piero della Francesca and perspective
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Barocelli, Francesco;
(2003)
Raffaello e la Tetractys di Pitagora
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Schreiber, Peter;
Fischer, Gisela;
Sternath, Maria Luise;
(2008)
New Light on the Rediscovery of the Archimedean Solids during the Renaissance
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Field, J.V.;
(1997)
Alberti, the abacus and Piero della Francesca's proof of perspective
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