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Book SynopsisBoth 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,fromsacri monti,to Michelangelo''s marble sculptures,to evangelical lectures delivered at the Accademia Fiorentina
Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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?
