Journey to Arezzo
Nicholas Penny: The Apotheosis of Piero, 17 April 2003
Piero della Francesca
by Roberto Longhi, translated by David Tabbat.
Sheep Meadow, 364 pp., £32.50, September 2002,1 878818 77 5 Show More
by Roberto Longhi, translated by David Tabbat.
Sheep Meadow, 364 pp., £32.50, September 2002,
“... among them Botticelli’s Mars and Venus. The purchase was endorsed by leading artists, and Benjamin Disraeli gave it his support. Piero was now fully established as an Old Master. Typically, his early discoverers – Robinson, Layard and Eastlake’s widow – believed that Burton had paid too much. Once Piero had attained this pre-eminence, he ... ”