A Childhood Memory by Piero Della Francesca

by Hubert Damisch

Book Overview

Piero della Francesca's Madonna del Parto, a celebrated fifteenth-century Tuscan fresco in which the Virgin gestures to her partially open dress and her pregnant womb, is highly unusual in its iconography. Hubert Damisch undertakes an anthropological and historical analysis of an artwork he constructs as a childhood dream of one of humanity's oldest preoccupations, the mysteries of our origins, of our conception and birth. At once parodying...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804734429
• ISBN13: 9780804734424
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.7" x 8.6"