Pontormo, Bronzino, and the Medici: The Transformation of the Renaissance Portrait in Florence

by Elizabeth Cropper and Carl Brandon Strehlke

Book Overview

This book accompanies an exhibition of the same names held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art upon the completion of onservation of Pontormo's famous portrait of Duke Alessandro de' Medici. Centering on Pontormo's painting and Angolo Bronzino's equally renowned depiction of another Medici duke, Cosimo I, the exhibition of some fifty sixteenth-century works from American and European collections explores the ways in which these artists changed the Renaissance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876331819
• ISBN13: 9780876331811
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Philadelphia Museum (PA)
• Length: 173 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.