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Piero Della Francesca—Seurat—Gris

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 July 2024

Lionello Venturi
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Extract

The director of the National Gallery in London told me recently that the most popular pictures in his museum are Piero della Francesca's ‘Baptism of Christ’ and ‘Nativity’, and it is common knowledge that art-lovers sensitive to the present trends of taste nowadays go to Arezzo to see the frescoes in the Church of St. Francis rather than to Rome for the sake of Raphael's Loggias or Michelangelo's ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

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Research Article
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Diogenes , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , March 1953 , pp. 19 - 23
Copyright
Copyright © 1953 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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References

1 cf. John Rewald, Seurat. Paris, 1948.

2 cf. Piero della Francesca's treatise, De Prospectiva Pingendi. Edited by G. Nicco Fasola. Florence, 1942; and De Corporibus Regolaribus. Memoria di G. Mancini. Rome: Accademia dei Lincei, 1915.

3 Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Juan Gris. Paris, 1946.