Pontormo, Bronzino, and the Medici: The Transformation of the Renaissance Portrait in Florence.

Strehlke, Carl Brandon:

ISBN 10: 0271025360 / ISBN 13: 9780271025360

Published by The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001

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173 pages, 76 color, 70 black-and-white illustrations Very good and clean copy. - With essays by Elizabeth Cropper and Mark S. Tucker, Irma Passeri, Ken Sutherland, and Beth A. Price. This book accompanies an exhibition of the same name held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art upon the comple- tion of conservation of Jacopo Pontormo's famous portrait of Duke Alessandro de' Medici. Centering on Pontormo's painting and Agnolo Bronzino's equally renowned depic- tion of another Medici duke, Cosimo I, the exhibition gathers from American and European collections nearly fifty sixteenth-century works that demonstrate the ways in which these artists changed the Renaissance portrait during a tumultuous period in Florence's history. The two Philadelphia portraits offer fascinating private views of important rulers of Florence. In his painting of Alessandro, Pontormo depicts the duke in the process of making a drawing, an activity prized both as part of the humanist culture of aristocratic Italians and as the basis of the art of the Florentine masters. Bronzino's portrait of Cosimo I in the guise of Orpheus, the great poet and musician of Greek mythology, is an allegory on the young duke who was to become a major patron of the arts in Florence. In his catalogue entries, Carl Brandon Strehlke surveys the history and multifaceted significance of the Medici portraits and other paintings, drawings, coins, medals, books, and prints in the exhibition, offering a wealth of insights into these works and the Florentine men and women they portray. This fully illustrated volume also features Elizabeth Cropper's thought-provoking "Pontormo and Bronzino in Philadelphia: A Double Portrait," which explores the rich cultural and artistic background of these artists' portraiture. An essay by Mark S. Tucker, Irma Passeri, Ken Sutherland, and Beth A. Price discusses findings from the recent conservation of Pontormo's portrait of Alessandro. A genealogy of the Medici family, a glossary, and a bibliography complete this publication. + + + CONTENTS: Foreword VII -- ANNE D'HARNONCOURT AND JOSEPH J. RISHEL -- Acknowledgments IX -- Pontormo and Bronzino, for and against the Medici XI CARL BRANDON STREHLKE -- Medici Genealogy XIV -- Pontormo and Bronzino in Philadelphia: A Double Portrait I ELIZABETH CROPPER -- Technique and Pontormo's Portrait of Alessandro de' Medici -- MARK S. TUCKER, IRMA PASSERI, KEN SUTHERLAND, AND BETH A. PRICE -- Catalogue -- CARL BRANDON STREHLKE -- Glossary -- CARL BRANDON STREHLKE -- Citations -- Index of Artists and Works. ISBN 9780271025360 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1192.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pontormo, Bronzino, and the Medici: The Transformation of the Renaissance Portrait in Florence.
• Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0271025360
• ISBN 13: 9780271025360
• Binding: Orig.-cloth: orig.-dust jacket
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Weight: 1192 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Kunstgeschichte

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Synopsis

Co-published with the Philadelphia Museum of Art This book accompanies an exhibition of the same name held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art upon the completion of conservation of Pontormo’s famous portrait of Duke Alessandro de’ Medici. Centering on Pontormo’s painting and Agnolo Bronzino’s equally renowned depiction of another Medici duke, Cosimo I, the exhibition of some fifty sixteenth-century works from American and European collections explores the ways in which these artists changed the Renaissance portrait during this tumultuous period in Florence’s history.

In his catalogue entries, Carl Brandon Strehlke surveys the history and multifaceted significance of the Medici portraits and other paintings, drawings, coins, medals, books, and prints in the exhibition, offering a wealth of insights into the Medici dukes and the artists who served them. This fully illustrated volume also features Elizabeth Cropper’s thought-provoking essay “Pontormo and Bronzino in Philadelphia: A Double Portrait,” which explores the rich cultural and artistic background behind these artists’ portraiture. The two Philadelphia portraits offer fascinating private views of important rulers of Renaissance Florence. An essay by Mark S. Tucker and colleagues discusses findings from the recent conservation of Pontormo’s portrait of Alessandro. A glossary, a genealogy of the Medici family, and a bibliography complete this publication.

The book will accompany an exhibition to be held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from November 20, 2004, to February 13, 2005.

About the Author

Carl Brandon Strehlke is Adjunct Curator of the John G. Johnson Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.