Piero della Francesca: the Flagellation

Abstract

"Lavin's study of the Pierro della Francesca "Flagellation" at Urbino, as befits this exquisite masterpiece, is a model of lucid and precise exposition as well as being an exciting exercise of scholarship. Informed with the intellectual rigour of Scholastic exegesis, it deserves to be placed with the classic readings of fifteenth and sixteenth century works by Erwin Panofsky and Edgar Wind." --Spectator.

Contents

Preface -- Historical Table -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Physical History of the Painting -- 3. The Sources of the Composition -- 4. The Setting -- 5. The Portraits -- 6. The Subject -- 7. Art Historical Context -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Index