Pontormo: Paintings and Frescoes
Nigro here assembles critical and literary references to the Mannerist artist who admired and was influenced by Michelangelo and was a pupil of Andrea del Sarto. The bulk of this book consists of beautiful color plates with dissonant commentaries. Although similar in style and format to Pontormo: Drawings (Abrams, 1992), it differs in offering a chronology based on Vasari's Lives instead of the artist's own diary and provides detailed bibliographic notes as well. Libraries that own Drawings should definitly purchase this compliment; both are suitable for Mannerist and other collections serving advanced studies in the period.Ellen Bates, New YorkCopyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.