Peggy Fogelman is associate curator in the Department of Sculpture and Works of Art at the Museum

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Pontormo: Portrait of a Halberdier Photography Peggy Fogelman is associate curatorElizabeth Cropper Much has been written about the identity of the sitter in this portrait by Pontormo. In 1568 the most famous contemporary recorder of artists' lives, the painter Giorgio Vasari, noted that Pontormo painted a beautiful work, a portrait of Francesco Guardi depicted as a soldier during the 1528 siege of Florence. However, in 1612 the name of Cosimo de' Medici was attached to a description of the portrait. In this volume, the author