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Lesser gods: Pontormo and Medici Astrology: concluding his article on Pontormo and the Medici, Larry J. Feinberg discusses a recently discovered drawing by the artist. Perhaps a study for a tapestry border or a decorative surround of a fresco, it may rela

Some 20 years after his involvement at Poggio a Caiano, discussed in the first part of this article, Pontormo was engaged again by the Medici to...
Apollo, 02/01/07 by Larry J. Feinberg · More from publication

Larry J. Feinberg

Lesser Gods: Pontormo's fluid mind and engaging humour are revealed in two newly discovered drawings for decorative schemes commissioned by the Medici. In the first instalment of a two-part article, Larry J. Feinberg discusses his fresco in the villa at P

Although harshly disparaged by Giorgio Vasari in the Lives of the Artists for his reputedly unsocial behaviour and unprofessional ways, Jacopo...
Apollo, 01/01/07 by Larry J. Feinberg · More from publication

From America for Florence: Mel Gibson and Sting may not often be associated with Florentine mannerist altarpieces, but, as Larry J. Feinberg explains, the support that they and many other benefactors are giving to a dynamic American organisation, the Frie

Once past Michelangelo's David, now as glorious as he was at the time of creation, thanks to a deft recent cleaning, the visitor to Florence's...
Apollo, 10/01/06 by Larry J. Feinberg · More from publication

Imagination all compact: tavolette and confraternity rituals for the condemned in renaissance Italy: Larry J. Feinberg traces the history of the ideas that lay behind tavolette, devotional images held up to the faces of condemned men as they were led to e

He cannot imagine how his life will end. Looking up from the cold floor he at first finds little comfort in the small painted image before him,...
Apollo, 05/01/05 by Larry J. Feinberg · More from publication

Visual puns and variable perception: Leonardo's Madonna of the Yarnwinder: in the second of two articles on Leonardo da Vinci, Larry J. Feinberg explains how the delight artist took in rebuses—visual puns—was part of a larger interest in the rel

Over time, Leonardo's interest in vision and perception increasingly became fused with his literary inquiries and recreations. From the very...
Apollo, 08/01/04 by Larry J. Feinberg · More from publication

Sight unseen: vision and perception in Leonardo's Madonnas: in the first of two articles on Leonardo da Vinci, Larry J. Feinberg explains how the artist's interest in the way the eyes work influenced his realistic depictions of the Christ Child as a baby

In recent years a number of scholarly studies have investigated and elucidated the complex intersection of Leonardo da Vinci's art with his other...
Apollo, 07/01/04 by Larry J. Feinberg · More from publication