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Book Description: SHEEP MEADOW PR, 2009. Paperback. Book Condition: New. New book. Shipped from US. Bookseller Inventory # IB-9781931357081

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Book Description: Sheep Meadow Press,U.S., United States, 2009. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 254 x 178 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. This book is a new English version of the third edition (1963) of Longhi's seminal work on the Renaissance painter Piero della Francesca, with an introduction by Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Keith Christiansen. Bookseller Inventory # AAC9781931357081

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Book Description: Sheep Meadow Press, Riverdale, 2009. Softcover. Book Condition: New. First Paperback Edition. 386 pages. Softcover. New book. ART. A major work by a most important Italian art historian. This book is a new English version of the third edition (1963) of Longhi's seminal work on the Renaissance painter Piero della Francesca, with an introduction by Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Keith Christiansen. Includes 49 illustrations with 10 in color. "With the exception of Walter Pater, it is difficult to think of a critic whose work is so close to the art it embraces that it becomes itself a kind of art. Yet Pater's criticism is always on the verge of metamorphosing into poetry. With Longhi, the scholar and the poet are seamlessly fused, resulting in prose that is palpable and radiant as the Renaissance paintings he describes so meticulously: an object of rare beauty indeed."ÑJohn Ashbery Roberto Longhi is "the most brilliant Italian art historian of our century and a stylist of intoxicating powers . . . few of his very idiosyncratic works have been translated into English; but thanks to the enterprise of the Sheep Meadow Press, this situation is at last being remedied."ÑFrancis Haskell, New York Review of Books Roberto Longhi (1890-1970) is regarded by Italians as their most important art critic, art historian, and prose stylist of this century, with unsurpassed powers of observation and description. (Key Words: Art History, Biography, Letters, British History, European History, Medieval History, Renaissance History, Piero Della Francesca, Roberto Longhi, Keith Christiansen). book. Bookseller Inventory # 64482X1

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Book Description: Sheepmeadow Press, Riverdale, 2002. Softcover. Book Condition: New. 386 pages. Softcover. New book. ART. This is a new English version by David Tabbat of the third edition (1963) of Longhi's seminal work on the Renaissance painter Piero della Francesca, with an introduction by Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Keith Christiansen. Roberto Longhi (1890-1970) is regarded by Italians as their most important art critic, art historian, and prose stylist of the twentieth century, with unsurpassed powers of observation and description. Roberto Longhi is "the most brilliant Italian art historian of our century and a stylist of intoxicating powers . . . few of his very idiosyncratic works have been translated into English; but thanks to the enterprise of the Sheep Meadow Press, this situation is at last being remedied."ÑFrancis Haskell, New York Review of Books "With the exception of Walter Pater, it is difficult to think of a critic whose work is so close to the art it embraces that it becomes itself a kind of art. Yet Pater's criticism is always on the verge of metamorphosing into poetry. With Longhi, the scholar and the poet are seamlessly fused, resulting in prose that is palpable and radiant as the Renaissance paintings he describes so meticulously: an object of rare beauty indeed."ÑJohn Ashbery (Key Words: Art History, Biography, Letters, British History, European History, Medieval History, Renaissance History, Piero Della Francesca, David Tabbat, Roberto Longhi, Keith Christiansen). New English version of the Third Edition. book. Bookseller Inventory # 64844X1

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Book Description: SHEEP MEADOW PR, 2009. Paperback. Book Condition: New. New book. Shipped from US. Bookseller Inventory # IB-9781931357081

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Book Description: Sheep Meadow Press,U.S. Paperback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW, Piero Della Francesca, Roberto Longhi, Finally in paperback, this is a major work by the most important Italian art historian of the twentieth century. Roberto Longhi (1890-1970) is regarded by Italians as their most important art critic, art historian, and prose stylist of the last century, with unsurpassed powers of observation and description. This book is a new English version of the third edition (1963) of Longhi's seminal work on the Renaissance painter Piero della Francesca, with an introduction by Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Keith Christiansen. In the "New York Review of Books", Francis Haskell wrote, Roberto Longhi is 'the most brilliant Italian art historian of the 20th century and a stylist of intoxicating powers.few of his very idiosyncratic works have been translated into English; but thanks to the enterprise of the Sheep Meadow Press, this situation is at last being remedied'. Bookseller Inventory # B9781931357081

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Book Description: Sheep Meadow Pr, 2002. Paperback. Book Condition: Brand New. illustrated edition. 386 pages. 9.80x6.90x0.90 inches. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # x-1931357080

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Book Description: SHEEP MEADOW PRESS,U.S. Book Condition: New. Roberto Longhi (1890-1970) is regarded by Italians as their most important art critic, art historian, and prose stylist with unsurpassed powers of observation and description. This book presents an English version of the third edition (1963) of Longhi's seminal work on the Renaissance painter Piero della Francesca. Brand NEW unread book. Soft cover bound book. Bookseller Inventory # 9781931357081

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Book Description: Paperback. Book Condition: New. 175mm x 23mm x 249mm. 364 pages. 0.726. Bookseller Inventory # 9781931357081

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