Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino: Diverging Paths of Mannerism

• A broad and multifaceted overview of two great painters' masterpieces • Published to accompany an exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, March 8th - July 20th 2014 In 1956, Palazzo Strozzi hosted the exhibition Pontormo and Early Florentine Mannerism, in which Pontormo's work was displayed alongside that of Rosso Fiorentino, Beccafumi and other adepts of the new and unconventional trend in painting. Almost sixty years later, Palazzo Strozzi has decided to hold an exhibition devoted to only two of that movement's leading lights, Pontormo and Rosso Fiordentino. In exploring the work of the two greatest Florentine exponents of what 20th-century critics christened Mannerism, the exhibition and this accompanying volume aim to track the chronological development of the movement. Includes essays by Philippe Costamagna, Elizabeth Cropper, Carlo Falciani, Massimo Firpo, Tommaso Mozzati, Antonio Natali, Alessandro Nova, Massimiliano Rossi, and entries by Grazia Badino, Andrea Baldinotti, Elena Capretti, Philippe Costamagna, Francesca De Luca, Carlo Falciani, Giovanni Maria Fara, David Franklin, Cristina Gelli, Antonio Geremicca, Giovanna Giusti, Sefy Hendler, Andrea Muzzi, Carol Plazzotta.