"Often dismissed as lacking significance by both contemporaries and subsequent historians, the Ghirlandaio workshop has received limited scholarly attention (except for a few good essays) thus far despite its interesting appeal. … Newly found documents shed light on the relationship between Michele Tosini, Ghirlandaio workshop, and the city of Florence; in fact, Heidi J. Hornik, professor of Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art History at Baylor University, offers us a complete scenario of Mannerist art in Florence and Tosini's workshop style. This compact volume presents the study in four brief chapters, all beautifully illustrated. With an introduction and a useful documental appendix, it is the result of a series of studies on the matter begun in the 1980s and it is her last work on the subject. As she declares in the book's introduction, the intent of the study is that the next generation of art historians will begin to think clearly about Michele Tosini and artists like him in terms of all of their contributions (artistic, religious,and civic) (xviii). … Through extensive archival research at Archivio di Stato and Archivio di S. Maria Novella in Florence, Hornik has produced an enlightening and engaging study of a fascinating period of Florence art history when the Italian painter Michele Tosini (150377) worked there.

He was the pupil and adopted son of Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio and became known as Michele di Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio. This work has much to commend it. … In conclusion, this volume will be of great interest to historians of Italian Mannerist art, to scholars of art literature, and to specialists in the history of Florentine art. Hornik's work is interesting, informative, and fair and offers something to the specialist as well as the common reader." - Sixteenth Century Journal.