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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Domenico Beccafumi’s place among the Italian artists of the first half of the sixteenth century is a prime one. Though widely recognized in Italy ever since 1568 when Vasari included him in his Lives of eminent artists Beccafumi is known only to the happy few outside his native country. Vasari depicts Beccafumi as a fanciful yet cool- headed painter a model of balanced strangeness making him an ideal figure of the Mannerist artist. The present book elucidates many of the incongruities scattered throughout Beccafumi’s work: the curious details and anecdotes concealed in orthodox compositions the queer landscapes and figures etc. Working on the borderline between two universes (that of traditional Sienese painting with its distinct iconography and plastic practices and that of classi- cal art represented by among others