Pontormo and the Art of Devotion in Renaissance Italy

It presents an innovative interpretation of the religious paintings of Pontormo, one of the most important painters of the Renaissance.

List of contents

Introduction: Drawing devotion, imitating nature in Cinquecento Florence; 1. Performing the Passion at the Certosa del Galluzo; 2. Pictorial theology and the Paragone in the Capponi Chapel; 3. Elusive rhetoric at San Lorenzo; 4. A Pontormo legacy in Florence?

About the author

Jessica Maratsos is Keith Sykes Research Fellow in Italian Studies at Pembroke College University of Cambridge.

Summary

Through its examination of the religious paintings by Pontormo, this book offers a new way to understand the fraught relationship between artistic innovation and Christian traditions in the first half of the sixteenth century, a period marked by dramatic change and controversy in both of these cultural spheres.

Product details

• Authors: Jessica A. Maratsos, Jessica A. (Pembroke College Maratsos
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781316510551
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51055-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; RELIGION / History, ART / History / General, ART / European, Italy, History of Religion, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Art, History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600, c 1000 CE to c 1500, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, 15th century, c 1400 to c 1499, Renaissance art, Renaissance style, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1700 To C 1800