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Meeting with Piero Della Francesca.
CALAMENDREI Piero, OSSOLA Carlo.

Meeting with Piero Della Francesca.

Rued'ulm
€15,00 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 29927
Format 14 x 18
Détails 96 p., illustrated, paperback.
Publication Paris, 2023
Etat Nine
ISBN 9782728808403
Calamandrei recalls a 1938 excursion to the area around Arezzo, on the borders of Tuscany and Umbria, where he first saw Piero della Francesca's now-famous fresco of the Pregnant Virgin. It provides the opportunity, in impeccable prose, for a sensitive meditation on the passage of time, the destruction and misfortunes of war, the irreplaceable nature of works, the evidence of beauty, the singularity of artistic emotion, and the strength of the Italian people's attachment to their heritage...
Unpublished text in French
Calamandrei recalls a 1938 excursion to the area around Arezzo, on the borders of Tuscany and Umbria, where he first saw Piero della Francesca's now-famous fresco of the Pregnant Virgin. It provides the opportunity, in impeccable prose, for a sensitive meditation on the passage of time, the destruction and misfortunes of war, the irreplaceable nature of works, the evidence of beauty, the singularity of artistic emotion, and the strength of the Italian people's attachment to their heritage...
Unpublished text in French