Hometown boy: Piero della Francesca in Arezzo: there are some impressive and illuminating loans to this courageous monographic exhibition on Piero della Francesca in the province of Arezzo, but there are also too many irrelevant works. Tom Henry asks how useful is it for an artist to be celebrated in his home town?(EXHIBITIONS)(Museo Statale d'Arte Medievale e Moderna)

Apollo | June 1, 2007| | Copyright

International exhibitions of artists in their home towns have become endemic in Italy in recent years. There have been Gentile in Fabriano, Masaccio in S Giovanni Valdarno, Sodoma is coming to Vercelli and we await Masolino in Panicale, Michelangelo in Caprese and Titian in Cadore (or at least the ambition to put on these local ventures, all of which have been attempted in the past). The Gentile and Masaccio exhibitions were both great shows, but one does wonder whether the perceived benefit to local tourism is real and whether these exhibitions are really being held in the ...

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