Douglas N. Dow is Associate Professor of Art History at Kansas State University, where he teaches courses on Renaissance and Baroque art. Co-editor of Visualizing the Past in Italian Renaissance Art, he is also the author of Apostolic Iconography and Florentine Confraternities in the Age of Reform. His other publications have appeared in edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals and focus on questions of historiography, style, and artistic reform in late sixteenth-century Florence.

• List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction: ‘Il primo huomo da dipingere in fresco, che sia in questi paesi’: Bernardino Poccetti and the Historiography of Florentine Painting during the Late Renaissance Chapter One: ‘Grandemente inclinato all’Arte del Disegno’: Filippo Baldinucci’s Biography of Bernardino Poccetti Chapter Two: ‘Le prime cose lodevoli molto’: Bernardino Poccetti’s Early Work and the Frescoes from the Life of Saint Dominic in the Chiostro Grande, Santa Maria Novella Chapter Three: ‘Locum ecclesiae designavit, quae Ioannis et uxoris pecunia extructa est’: Bernardino Poccetti and the Decoration of the Canigiani Chapel in Santa Felicita Chapter Four: ‘Miracula et alia id genus’: Bernardino Poccetti’s Frescoes in the Church of San Lorenzo at the Certosa del Galluzzo Chapter Five: ‘L’inventore di dipingere tutte le muraglie della nostra chiesa’: Bernardino Poccetti and the Sixteenth-Century Decoration of Santa Maria del Carmine Conclusion Bibliography Index