This remarkable book, published to accompany an important traveling exhibition, explores the artist's stylistic evolution in the context of his portraiture. (artbook.com)
Works by many of Italy's most renowned artists show the thematic and stylistic evolution of Italian painting from the religious works of the 14th century and the Renaissance to the secular neo-classical and genre paintings of the 19th century. (nytimes.com)
Stylistically they alter as fashions in art change, so even though most of her working life was spent outside the fashionable art world milieu — kicking against formalism and abstraction — the paintings themselves are dateable not just by the changing fashions of the sitters, but through various stylistic evolutions in art. (thequietus.com)