Pontormo at the certosa - ACM · Jacopo Carucci 1494 -1557 Moved to Florence around 1507 Studied under Leonardo da Vinci, Mariotto Albertinelli , Piero di Cosimo , and Andrea dal

Christian Krueger Ripon College ‘15

PONTORMO AT THE CERTOSA:

AN EXPLORATION OF PRINTS AND PASSIONS

Certosa del Galluzzo Monastery

THE PATRON

CERTOSA DEL GALLUZZO MONASTERY

1342 Niccolò Acciaiuoli

THE ARTIST

http://www.abcgallery.com/P/pontormo/pontormo90.html

Jacopo Carucci 1494-1557 Moved to Florence around 1507 Studied under Leonardo da Vinci, Mariotto Albertinelli, Piero

di Cosimo, and Andrea dal Sarto Raphael and Michelangelo’s praises

JACOPO PONTORMO

The Passion Series

THE PRODUCT

1522-1525 Safety, then solitude Prayer in Gethsemane , Christ Before Pilate, Walk to Calvary,

Lamentation Over the Dead Christ, and Resurrection

THE PASSION SERIES

PRAYER IN GETHSEMANE

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CHRIST BEFORE PILATE


WAY TO CALVARY


LAMENTATION OVER THE DEAD CHRIST


RESURRECTION


Directly from Dürer THE BLEND

WAY TO CALVARY CHRIST BEARING THE CROSS

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LAMENTATION OVER THE DEAD CHRIST THE LAMENTATION FOR CHRIST



THE RESURRECTION



Liquidity of the print

“...Dürer [seemed] to have realized early in his adult life that images replicated by the press were his and even society’s way

to the future...” -Talbot

WHY DÜRER?

Broader-scale shift in religious beliefs “whether the Capponi Chapel clearly indicates Pontormo's

inclination toward Catholic Evangelism, it does seem to evidence an artist sensitive to the religious equivocation of his

times.” -Harbison

WHY DÜRER?

Questions? FINE

Giles, Laura M. “‘Christ before Pilate’: A Major Composition Study by Pontormo.” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies , 17, no. 1 (1991): 22-40+89-92. http://www.jstor.org.

Harbison, Craig. “Pontormo, Baldung, and the Early Reformation.”

The Art Bulletin , 66, No. 2 (1984): 324-327. http://jstor.org.

“Historical Background.” Cistercensi . Accessed December 12, 2013

http://cistercencsi.info/certosadifirenze/storia.php. Talbot, Charles. “Dürer and the High Art of Printmaking.” In The

Essential Dürer, edited by Larry Silver and Jeffrey Chipps Smith, 35-61. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.

Vasari, Giorgio. The Lives of the Artists. Translated by Julia Conaway and Peter Bondanella. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 586.

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