Volume 29, Number 14 · September 23, 1982
Bronzino Returns
By Craig Hugh Smyth
Bronzino
by Charles McCorquodale
Harper and Row, 174 pp., $35.00
Charles McCorquodale's Bronzino is the first book in English to treat Bronzino's whole career as an artist since the publication of Arthur McComb's Agnolo Bronzino: His Life and Works in 1928. In the intervening half century, as the two quotations above suggest, a change has been taking place in the estimate of Bronzino's art. It is not only a matter of art historians having checked up on details and gathered more information, although this is part of the story. It is a matter, also, of changes in the perception, in the understanding, of Bronzino's painting and of painting in his time. And this becomes a matter, in turn, of the artist's stature. One might assume the general standing of such a well-known painter of the Renaissance to have been settled long ago, but it is not so in Bronzino's case.
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