Drawings by the great Italian Mannerist painter and poet Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572) are extremely rare. This important and beautiful publication brings together for the first time nearly all of the sixty drawings attributed to this leading draftsman of the 16th century.
Each drawing is illustrated in color, discussed in detail, and shown with many comparative photographs. Bronzino's technical virtuosity as a draftsman and his mastery of anatomy and perspective are vividly apparent in each stroke of the chalk, pen, or brush. The younger generations of Florentine artists particularly admired Bronzino for his technical virtuosity as a painter, and Giorgio Vasari praised him for his powers as a disegnatore (designer and draftsman).

The Drawings of Bronzino

Arts & Photography

Bambach, Carmen C.

Cox-Rearick, Janet

Goldner, George R.

History & Criticism

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Do the sacred decorations of a Florentine Renaissance chapel—saints, symbols, and scriptural stories—hold personal and political meanings? Cox-Rearick's ground-breaking book explores the message hidden in the frescoes and altar panels of the Chapel of Eleonora di Toledo, painted in the early 1540s by Agnolo Bronzino for the Spanish-born wife of Duke Cosimo I de Medici. Bronzino, then the chief painter to the Medici court, was largely responsible for the invention in Florence of the highly self-conscious, elegant Maniera style. Cox-Rearick interweaves her account of the Medici biography with an examination of Bronzino's commission in the broader context of his oeuvre. Cox-Rearick reveals the Chapel of Eleonora as an intimately devised decorative program that transmits messages about its patrons and Medici rule. Detailed color photographs of the newly restored art splendidly document this early tour de force of a major artist whose works are still relatively unexamined.

Bronzino's Chapel of Eleonora in the Palazzo Vecchio (California Studies in the History of Art)

University of California Press

The description for this book, Dynasty and Destiny in Medici Art: Pontomo, Leox, and the Two Cosimos, will be forthcoming.

Dynasty and Destiny in Medici Art: Pontomo, Leox, and the Two Cosimos

Reference

Princeton University Press

Francis I was the first Renaissance king of France, and reigned from 1515 to 1547. A man of considerable intelliugence and education, Francis embraced the new art of Renaisssance Italy with enthusiasm and taste, collecting the finest paintings and sculptures from Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian and others, When possible he brought the artists back to work with him in France. His many acquisitions and commissions formed the nucleus of the French royal collections, now in the Louvre. This book places the works in historical context, presenting them in the light of Francis's artistic patronage as a whole, and of the role of that patronage in the introduction of the Italian Renaissance style into French culture. Of particular interest are the many images of the king, both grand portraits and other works which symbolize the monarchy, including the great chateau of Fontainebleau.

The Collection of Francis I: Royal Treasures

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

Prepared in conjunction with the September 1999 Hunter College exhibition. Arranged chronologically, the text and illustrations follow Giulio's development as a draftsman from his youthful years at the papal court in Rome through his two decades as artistic entrepreneur at the Gonzaga court. Most of the drawings are from the Mantuan period and are arranged according to different types of projects that the artist designed. The exhibition explores Giulio's versatility, his inventiveness, speed and facility, and his ability to simultaneously recall and transform motifs from antique sculpture into a modern decorative language. It also emphasizes his different types of drawings and his workshop practice. Contains 44 b&w drawings and three prints. Cox-Rearick is professor of art history at Hunter College and the Graduate School CUNY. Oversize: 10x12

Giulio Romano: Master Designer

Romano, Giulio

Aste, Richard

Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery

Univ of Washington Pr

Fonds Mercator Paribas

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