Title: The drawings of Bronzino /
Authors: Bambach, Carmen; Bronzino, Agnolo, 1503-1572; Cox-Rearick, Janet; Goldner, George R., 1943-; Costamagna, Philippe; Faietti, Marzia; Pilliod, Elizabeth; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Yale University Press,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Bronzino, Agnolo, Exhibitions.; Drawing, Italian Exhibitions.; Mannerism (Art) Italy Exhibitions.
Abstract: 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).
Contents: Lenders to the exhibition -- Contributors to the catalogue -- Note to the reader -- The life of Bronzino / by Elizabeth Pilliod -- The critical fortunes of Bronzino's drawings from Vasari to Berenson / by Marzia Faietti -- Bronzino as a draftsman / by Janet Cox-Rearick -- Theory and practice in Bronzino's drawings / by Carmen C. Bambach -- The portraits of Bronzino / by Philippe Costamagna -- Drawings -- Paintings and tapestries.