TY - BOOK ID - 101072358 TI - Pontormo and the art of devotion in Renaissance Italy PY - 2021 SN - 1009037951 1009037285 1316510557 1009036947 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Christian art and symbolism KW - Devotion in art. KW - Pontormo, Jacopo da, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Art, Christian KW - Art, Ecclesiastical KW - Arts in the church KW - Christian symbolism KW - Ecclesiastical art KW - Symbolism and Christian art KW - Religious art KW - Symbolism KW - Symbolism in art KW - Church decoration and ornament KW - Carucci, Jacopo, KW - Da Pontormo, Jacopo, KW - Jacopo, KW - Carrucci, Jacopo, KW - Giacomo, KW - Pontorno, Giacomo da, KW - Da Pontormo, Giacomo, KW - Iacopo, KW - Pontormo, Iacopo da, KW - Da Pontormo, Iacopo, KW - Jacomo, KW - Pontormo, Jacomo da, KW - Da Pontormo, Jacomo, KW - Jacques, KW - Pontormo, Jacques, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101072358 AB - 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. ER -