By HOLLAND COTTER
Published: February 1, 2008, The New York Times
“Michelangelo, Vasari and Their Contemporaries: Drawings From the Uffizi” at the Morgan Library & Museum. "That sketch is just one of 79 16th-century Florentine works, shaped into a thematic exhibition. Of the three figures, the woman is the most vivid and polished. With her chiseled features bordering on masculine, her breast-baring gown and horned helmet of braids, she blends Renaissance neo-Classicism with proto-Mannerist fantasy. She looks completely at home in the mannerist phase of our own postmodernism, and was hugely influential in her time. Everyone wanted to make art this good and this strange."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/01/arts/design/01uffi.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Photo: Uffizi
Published: February 1, 2008, The New York Times
“Michelangelo, Vasari and Their Contemporaries: Drawings From the Uffizi” at the Morgan Library & Museum. "That sketch is just one of 79 16th-century Florentine works, shaped into a thematic exhibition. Of the three figures, the woman is the most vivid and polished. With her chiseled features bordering on masculine, her breast-baring gown and horned helmet of braids, she blends Renaissance neo-Classicism with proto-Mannerist fantasy. She looks completely at home in the mannerist phase of our own postmodernism, and was hugely influential in her time. Everyone wanted to make art this good and this strange."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/01/arts/design/01uffi.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Photo: Uffizi
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