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- Pontormo and the Art of Devotion in Renaissance Italy
- Pontormo and the Art of Devotion in Renaissance Italy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Plates
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction Drawing Devotion, Imitating Nature in Cinquecento Florence
- One Performing the Passion at the Certosa del Galluzzo
- Two Pictorial Theology and the Paragone in the Capponi Chapel
- Three Elusive Rhetoric at San Lorenzo
- Four A Pontormo Legacy in Florence?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
One - Performing the Passion at the Certosa del Galluzzo
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2022
- Pontormo and the Art of Devotion in Renaissance Italy
- Pontormo and the Art of Devotion in Renaissance Italy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Plates
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction Drawing Devotion, Imitating Nature in Cinquecento Florence
- One Performing the Passion at the Certosa del Galluzzo
- Two Pictorial Theology and the Paragone in the Capponi Chapel
- Three Elusive Rhetoric at San Lorenzo
- Four A Pontormo Legacy in Florence?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
Summary
This chapter demonstrates that Pontormo looked for expressive models in contemporary performance to capture the urgency and accessibility demanded by the commission. Motifs of arrival, interruption, and departure that characterize the frescoes foreground the beholder’s ambulatory experience of the images, which are analyzed in relation to Michel de Certeau’s theoretical definitions of space versus place, as well as the viewing conditions at the sacro monte of San Vivaldo and of Florentine sacre rappresentazioni.
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- Pontormo and the Art of Devotion in Renaissance Italy , pp. 29 - 72Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021