SOURCE: Stokes, Adrian. “Piero: A Masterpiece.” Spectator 183 (30 March 1951): 420-22.

In the following review, Stokes recounts several highlights throughout Clark's Piero della Francesca and characterizes the book as magnificent, meticulous, and vivid.

The reader who loves Piero may well find that this magnificent, meticulous yet always vivid book [Piero della Francesca] serves as a kind of extension of Piero's own achievement; that Sir Kenneth has, so to say, used for an interpretative standard the very excellence of his subject. From these pages, allied with superb plates that have no rival, the permanence of our contact with Piero becomes secure. And, especially since there seems to be no contact in art which at the present time is likely to be more profitable, the publication makes an outstanding event in the literature of appreciation, no less for the general public than for the art historian, scholar and connoisseur. It is a...