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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
On hard to find art
Finding a good book of drawings of a particular artist who is known for his beautiful drawings can be difficult. Those books that are available are generally very expensive. It is with this knowlege that I recommend this book. The paper is average, the selection and size are nice. I would question some of the croppings, and there were fewer than I would have liked, but...
Published on June 4, 2007 by life-time student
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
An Average Amount Of Information
The "Drawings of Pontormo" has 44 pages of drawings by the artist. A typical drawing is printed as 6 1/2 by 8 3/4 inches. The book says that it is a first edition, copyright 1986. The pages are 8 1/4 by 11 inches. (Some volumes in the "Master Draughtsman Series" have a larger format.) Each page contains one or two drawings. The drawings are almost all sketches and...
Published 19 months ago by Stephen Tashiro
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
An Average Amount Of Information,
By Stephen Tashiro "sometimes reliable" (Las Cruces, NM United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
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This review is from: Drawings of Pontormo (Master Draughtsman Series) (Paperback)
The "Drawings of Pontormo" has 44 pages of drawings by the artist. A typical drawing is printed as 6 1/2 by 8 3/4 inches. The book says that it is a first edition, copyright 1986. The pages are 8 1/4 by 11 inches. (Some volumes in the "Master Draughtsman Series" have a larger format.) Each page contains one or two drawings. The drawings are almost all sketches and studies. The collection does contain a self portrait of Pontormo and some of the drawings called "studies" are very refined. The reproductions are monochrome. Each drawing is identified by a title, the media used to create it and the museum or collection that contains it. There is no information about the size of the original drawings. Most drawings are from the Uffizi Gallery and this gallery appears to put a distinctive stamp on them. If these stamps are all the same size, then the drawings in the book are printed to different scales.A two page introduction by Stephen Longstreet tells us that the artist's name was Jacopo Carucci. He was known as "Pontormo" after the village of his birth. We learn that he was in the school of art called "Mannerism" and that he often drew people's eyes as circular instead of oval. (Web research shows that the writer of the introduction was Chauncey Weiner. He took the pen name "Stephen Longstreet" after the original family name of a grandfather, which was "Weiner-Longstrasse".) There is a note (printed twice, for some reason) that says "Many thanks are due Mr. Harry Carmean for his invaluable research assistance. The Publishers. " In the Master Draughtsman Series, there is a book about the drawings of Harry Carmean, where we read that Harry is strongly influenced by Pontormo and also likes to draw figures that are "pinched" at the joints. I rate this book as three stars out of five to indicate that it gives an average amount of information about the drawings of Pontormo. It was relatively inexpensive, so I don't regret buying it. The pages in the book are not numbered. I don't know if scholars have standardized any set of titles or terminology for Pontormo's drawings. Using the titles given in the book, the drawings are as follows: Self Portrait Pen and Bistre Wash over face, Black Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence Italy Portrait Studies of a Boy Red Chalk, Torso in Black Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence Italy (printed on a half page) Boy in a Turban Red Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence Italy Studies for the Visormino Altar Black Chalk, heightened with White on brown paper Uffizi Gallery, Florence Italy Study for the Deluge Black Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence Italy Study for The Deposition Black Chalk, heightened with White Uffizi Gallery, Florence Italy Three Seated Nudes Red Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence Italy Sleeping Boy Red Chalk, on faint Black Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence Italy Nude Study Red Chalk British Museum, London, England Nude Studies Red Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence Italy Studies for the St. Michele Altar Red Chalk, Small Foot in Ink Uffizi Gallery, Florence Italy Study for Vertumus & Pomona Red Chalk over Black Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence Italy (printed on a half page, this is the drawing on the cover of the book) Studies for St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness Red Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence Italy (printed on a half page) Studies for the Supper at Emmaus Red Chalk British Museum, London, England Studies for Joseph II Red & Black Chalk Ecole Des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France Study for Joseph III, Three Male Nudes Red Chalk Musee Des Beaux Arts, Lille, France (printed on a half page) Study for Joseph III Red Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence Italy (printed on a half page) Two Seated men, one with a Hand Mirror Black crayon on gray-green paper Stadelsche Kunstinstitute, Frankfort/Main, Germany Study for St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness Red Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence Italy (printed on a half page) Studies for St. Francis Black Chalk sketches sideways, and on reverse in Red Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence Italy (printed on a half page) Portrait Study of a Boy Red Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence Italy An Old Man Holding a Small Child Black Chalk National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland (printed on a half page) A Young Man Holding a Small Child Black Chalk National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland (printed on a half page) Studies for the Pieta Red Chalk, small studies in Black Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence Italy Nude Study Red Chalk British Museum, London, England Nude Study Black Chalk, heightened with White Uffizi Gallery, Florence Italy Two Nude Studies Red Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence Italy Three Nude Studies Red Chalk The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City, NY Studies for the St. Michele Altar Black Chalk, heightened with White, hands in Red Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence Italy Study for Christ in Glory, with the Creation of Eve Black Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence Italy Studies for the Careggi Loggia Red Chalk, lightly washed Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany Studies for Vertumnus & Pomona Black Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy (printed on a half page) Studies for the St. Michele Altar Red chalk, Small Foot in Ink Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy (printed on a half page) Study for the Xisdomini Altar Black Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy Seated Boy Red Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy Study for Vertumnus & Pomona Red Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy (printed on a half page) Study for Vertumnus & Pomona Red Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy (printed on a half page, different than the previous drawing) Study for the Legend of the Ten Thousand Martyrs Black Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy Nude Study Black, Red and White Chalk J. Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City, NY Study for the Pieta Red Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy Study for a Nailing of the Cross Red Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy (printed on a half page) Studies for The Birthplace Red Chalk, and Sketches in Black Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy (printed on a half page) Study for Vertumnus & Pomona Red Chalk, over faint Black Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy Study for the Israelites Drinking of the Water in the Wilderness Black Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy (printed on a half page) Reclining Boy Red Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy (printed on a half page) Study for Vertumnus and Pomona Red Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy Study for Vertumnu & Pomona Black Chalk on bluish prepared paper Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy Seated Nude Black Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy (printed on a half page) Study for a Three Graces Red Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy (printed on a half page) Study for the Careggi Loggia Red Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy (printed on a half page) Study for the Cargeggi Loggia Black Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy (printed on a half page) Study for a Three Graces Red Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy Study for a Venus and Cupid Red Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy Studies for The Resurrection of the Dead Black Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy (printed on a half page) Nude Study for The San Lorenzo Black Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy (printed on a half page) Study for the Costello Loggia Black Chalk Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
On hard to find art,
By life-time student (the midwest) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Drawings of Pontormo (Master Draughtsman Series) (Paperback)
Finding a good book of drawings of a particular artist who is known for his beautiful drawings can be difficult. Those books that are available are generally very expensive. It is with this knowlege that I recommend this book. The paper is average, the selection and size are nice. I would question some of the croppings, and there were fewer than I would have liked, but I don't know how many Pontormo drawings are publicly available, so few are better than none.
2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good selections - OK reproductions,
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This review is from: Drawings of Pontormo (Master Draughtsman Series) (Paperback)
It's OK for studying his drawing technique specially if you want to do master drawing copying.
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Drawings of Pontormo (Master Draughtsman Series) by Jacopo da Pontormo (Paperback - Dec. 1989)
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