"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

"[Lavin] leaves the picture more wondrous than before, a simultaneous triumph of the theological and biographical, as well as pictorial, imagination."—Rackstraw Downes, New York Times Book Review

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

AUTHOR:

Marilyn Aronberg Lavin, professor of the history of art, has taught at Princeton University, Yale University, and the University of Maryland. She is author of Piero della Francesca: The Flagellation.