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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)
Three - Elusive Rhetoric at San Lorenzo
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
Departing from previous interpretations of this lost pictorial cycle, this chapter argues that Pontormo combined the complex rhetorical devices that dominated academic lectures with the didactic typological pairings common to popular sermons, thereby creating a visual language that was accessible to the heterogeneous public who worshipped at the parish church of San Lorenzo.
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- Pontormo and the Art of Devotion in Renaissance Italy , pp. 111 - 153Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021