Bronzino

The life and works of a great artist and portrait painter in sixteenth century Italy carefully and accurately reconstructed for the 500th anniversary of his birth.
This volume has been published to mark the 500th anniversary of the birth of the Tuscan painter, a volume devoted to one of the key figures of the Italian renaissance: his life and his successful career are analysed in depth in a long illustrative essay where the author concisely and coherently deals with the most significant facets of this artist. The volume is richly illustrated in colour and completed with descriptions and tables on each single work. A small sized volume that combines the new elegant, easy-to-handle format with in-depth analysis and rich colour reproductions.

Maurizia Tazartes. Graduated in Medieval and Modern Art History at Turin University in 1964, since 1980 she has published articles on Art history in specialised publications dealing with issues such as commissions, iconography and the identification of artists from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
She is a consultant for the J. Paul Getty Museum in Santa Monica (California) and has carried out studies on art collections from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. She has contributed to the art and culture sections of "La Nazione", "La Stampa", and "il Giornale", and she writes as a critic and historian for this last newspaper. She resides in Pisa.