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The Art of Giovanni Antonio da Pordenone: Between Dialect and Language. By Charles E. Cohen. New York: Cambridge Univ. Pr., 1996.2 vols. $275 (ISBN 0-521-30630-2).
Charles E. Cohen's prodigious monograph on the Italian Renaissance artist Giovanni Antonio da Pordenone is a welcome addition to the existing literature covering this period of art history. The book is the first publication in English to comprehensively chronicle the work of Pordenone, an artist described by the author as one that needs to be rescued from relative neglect (preface, xiii). Indeed, a review of standard art historical texts finds no mention of the artist. Marilyn Stokstad's recent publication Art History (Abrams, 1995), adopted by many undergraduate art history programs as a standard text, has no mention of the artist. Nor does Anthony Janson's History of Art (Prentice Hall, 1995), long considered the prevailing standard for students of art history, mention Pordenone. The most thorough discussion in English to date of the artist is...