#RivetingReviews: Tom Taylor reviews PERSPECTIVES by Laurent Binet, translated by Sam Taylor
Perspectives begins, naturally, with a murder. Jacopo da Pontormo, the painter often credited with shifting the course of Florentine Renaissance art, has been stabbed through the heart with a chisel ‘at the foot of his famous frescoes’ in San Lorenzo (since tragically lost to a fire in the eighteenth century, though still venerated by art historians as near-equals to Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel). According to Giorgio Vasari’s influential account of the period, The Lives of the Artis...| European Literature Network
