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Author : Janet Cox-Rearick
Release : 1992
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Book Synopsis Pontormo, Bronzino, Allori and the Lost 'Deluge' at S. Lorenzo by : Janet Cox-Rearick
Download or read book Pontormo, Bronzino, Allori and the Lost 'Deluge' at S. Lorenzo written by Janet Cox-Rearick. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Pilliod
Release : 2001-01-01
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Pontormo, Bronzino, Allori by : Elizabeth Pilliod
Download or read book Pontormo, Bronzino, Allori written by Elizabeth Pilliod. This book was released on 2001-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pilliod compares information from documents she has discovered with Vasari's versions of the artists' lives and shows how Vasari manipulated their biographies - for example, suppressing any mention of Pontormo's status as a court artist, including his salary from Duke Cosimo I - in order to diminish their reputations, to obliterate memory of the traditional Florentine workshops, and to enhance the importance of the Academy instead. She also discusses such subjects as the evidence for Pontormo's association with the Medici court; Pontormo's house and its place in the urban fabric of Florence; Bronzino's and Pontormo's intimate association with poets and theatrical spectacles; and Allori's painted challenge to Vasari's view of the artistic scene in sixteenth-century Florence.
Author : Philip Lindsay Sohm
Release : 2007-01-01
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis The Artist Grows Old by : Philip Lindsay Sohm
Download or read book The Artist Grows Old written by Philip Lindsay Sohm. This book was released on 2007-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does the artist’s self-conception change in old age? How does old age affect artistic practice? In this intriguing study, art historian Philip Sohm considers some of the greatest artists of Renaissance and Baroque Italy and their experiences of aging. Sohm investigates how art critics, collectors, biographers, and fellow artists dealt with old painters, what mental landscapes preconditioned responses to art by the elderly, and how biology and psychology were co-opted to explain the imprint that artists left on their art. He also looks carefully at the impact of prejudices, stereotypes, and other imaginary truths about old age. For some artists, the problems of old age were related to physical decline—Poussin’s hands became shaky, Titian’s eyesight dimmed. For others, psychological symptoms emerged. The book’s cast of characters includes Michelangelo, the hypochondriac young fogy; Titian, the shrewd marketer of old age; the multiphobic Pontormo; and others. With sensitivity and insight, Sohm uncovers what it meant to be an old artist and how successive generations have looked at the art of an old master.
Author : Jessica A. Maratsos
Release : 2021-09-09
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Pontormo and the Art of Devotion in Renaissance Italy by : Jessica A. Maratsos
Download or read book Pontormo and the Art of Devotion in Renaissance Italy written by Jessica A. Maratsos. This book was released on 2021-09-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Carmen Bambach
Release : 2010
Genre : Drawing
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Book Rating : 542/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Drawings of Bronzino by : Carmen Bambach
Download or read book The Drawings of Bronzino written by Carmen Bambach. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawings by the great Italian Mannerist painter and poet Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572) are extremely rare. This important and beautiful publication brings together for the first time nearly all of the sixty drawings attributed to this leading draftsman of the 16th century. Each drawing is illustrated in color, discussed in detail, and shown with many comparative photographs. Bronzino's technical virtuosity as a draftsman and his mastery of anatomy and perspective are vividly apparent in each stroke of the chalk, pen, or brush. The younger generations of Florentine artists particularly admired Bronzino for his technical virtuosity as a painter, and Giorgio Vasari praised him for his powers as a disegnatore (designer and draftsman).
