Painting in Renaissance Florence, 1500-1550

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. Hardcover. VG/VG. Blue cloth over boards; blue & color illus. dj.; 273 pp.; 199 color and bw plates and figures. Discusses a critical period in Renaissance art--about 1500, when Leonardo returned to Florence, until about 1550, when Vasari first published the first edition of 'The Lives of Artists'; Focuses on 12 artists: Perugino, Leonardo da Vinci, Piero di Cosimo, Michelangelo, Fra Bartolomeo, Ridolfo Ghirlandio, Andrea del Sarto, Franciabigio, Rosso Fiorentino, Jacopo da Pontormo, Francesco Salviati, and Giorgio Vasari. Contents include: Perugino and the eclipse of Quattrocento mannerism -- Leonardo da Vinci and the origins of a new style -- Piero di Cosimo: a Renaissance 'eccentric' -- Michelangelo, the Florentine painter -- Fra Bartolomeo, the School of San Marco and the Dominican manner -- Ridolfo Ghirlandaio and the retrospective tradition in painting -- Andrea del Sarto: the artist 'without errors' -- The critical misfortunes of Franciabigio -- Rosso Fiorentino and the rejection of Florence -- Jacopo da Pontormo: the last painter of the Florentine Renaissance -- Francesco Salviati: Rome in Florence -- The life of Giorgio Vasari.