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Pontormo and the art of devotion in Renaissance Italy
- Title
- Pontormo and the art of devotion in Renaissance Italy / Jessica A. Maratsos, Pembroke College, Cambridge.
- Author
- Maratsos, Jessica A.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- ©2021
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Pontormo, Jacopo da, 1494-1556.
- Description
- xii, 261 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 26 cm
- Summary
- "In Italy narrative representation simultaneously played a crucial role in the newly developing realm of pictorial naturalism and acted as a fundamental feature of Christian imagery. Hans Belting, in outlining a significant shift in this mode of art at the time of Giotto, highlights the essential parallels between narrative structure and the Christian faith: "Revelation is told as a biography of Christ ... The truth became visible through the narration of miraculous and significant events, res gestae, in the sense of true and important facts." Over time, however, Belting argues that narrative imagery of the Trecento developed a more complex, communicative language, allowing for psychological interpretation and allegorical readings; "Narrative adopted an instrumental scope.""--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2014, under the title: Devotional imagination of Jacopo Pontormo.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-251) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Drawing Devotion, Imitating Nature in Cinquecento Florence -- Performing the Passion at the Certosa del Galluzzo -- Pictorial Theology and the Paragone in the Capponi Chapel -- Elusive Rhetoric at San Lorenzo -- A Pontormo Legacy in Florence?
- Call Number
- JQF 23-1339
- ISBN
- 9781316510551
- 1316510557
- 9781009037952 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2021017112
- OCLC
- 1248600121
- Author
- Maratsos, Jessica A., author.
- Title
- Pontormo and the art of devotion in Renaissance Italy / Jessica A. Maratsos, Pembroke College, Cambridge.
- Publisher
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-251) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1450-1600
- Added Author
- Pontormo, Jacopo da, 1494-1556.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Maratsos, Jessica A. Pontormo and the art of devotion in Renaissance Italy Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2022 9781009037952 (DLC) 2021017113
- Research Call Number
- JQF 23-1339