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Pontormo and the Art of Devotion in Renaissance Italy (Hardcover)
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Pontormo and the Art of Devotion in Renaissance Italy (Hardcover)
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Both lauded and criticized for his pictorial eclecticism, the
Florentine artist Jacopo Carrucci, known as Pontormo, created some
of the most visually striking religious images of the Renaissance.
These paintings, which challenged prevailing illusionistic
conventions, mark a unique contribution into the complex
relationship between artistic innovation and Christian traditions
in the first half of the sixteenth century. Pontormo's sacred works
are generally interpreted as objects that reflect either pure
aesthetic experimentation, or personal and cultural anxiety.
Jessica Maratsos, however, argues that Pontormo employed stylistic
change deliberately for novel devotional purposes. As a painter, he
was interested in the various modes of expression and communication
- direct address, tactile evocation, affective incitement - as
deployed in a wide spectrum of devotional culture, from sacri
monti, to Michelangelo's marble sculptures, to evangelical lectures
delivered at the Accademia Fiorentina. Maratsos shows how Pontormo
translated these modes in ways that prompt a critical rethinking of
Renaissance devotional art.
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