Book contents
- 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)
Introduction - Drawing Devotion, Imitating Nature in Cinquecento Florence
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2022
Book contents
- 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
Tracing Pontormo’s critical fortunes and misfortunes, the introduction interrogates the legacy of Vasari and mannerism to provide a nuanced view of his production and its place within the Florentine canon. A reevaluation of Pontormo’s drawings and early religious commissions demonstrates that the ways in which he explored imitation and innovation at first hewed to, and then radically departed from, traditional pictorial conventions.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021