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Michele Tosini and the Ghirlandaio Workshop in Cinquecento Florence (Paperback)
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Michele Tosini and the Ghirlandaio Workshop in Cinquecento Florence (Paperback)
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This book sets out to establish Michele Tosini's critical role in
sixteenth-century Mannerist art in Florence. He was well-trained,
well-educated and well-liked, and created a highly productive
workshop environment that not only succeeded but thrived in one of
the most competitive ages of artistic production in the history of
art. To date, scholarship executed on Tosini (Carlo Gamba in 1928,
Sydney Freedberg in 1974) has produced a plethora of
misunderstandings about Tosini's role in the Florentine artistic
community. The verdict that Tosini was a 'hack' painter who could
make his works look like those of more 'established' painters in
order to get commissions, and that he was an uneducated
'second-rate' painter who could not formulate complex
iconographical programs, is at odds with the evidence presented in
this current research. Tosini was much more than just 'the right
man in the right place at the right time'. He not only promoted
Mannerism, but was part of its process; indeed, the formation of
the Accademia del Disegno took place at the height of his artistic
career. Given his business acumen it is perhaps understandable that
;misunderstandings; have arisen. (To borrow from William Wallace,
Tosini can legitimately be thought of as 'Genius as Entrepreneur'.)
This is not only essential reading for all students of Late
Renaissance / Mannerist art history, but a majestic story of the
process of artistic endeavour and how it unfolds that is so deeply
admired today.
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