Giovanni Battista Naldini created a unique Mannerist style that borrowed not only from his masters Jacopo Pontormo and Giorgio Vasari but from their teacher, Andrea del Sarto. He adopted Vasari's forms, but his art's feeling and energy--though softened--came from Pontormo. From del Sarto, Naldini absorbed intimate, sentimental, and painterly elements. While his teachers ranked line over color, Nal
