Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART: Capponi Chapel; Deposition
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE B: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Capponi Chapel; Deposition
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Alternate Title:
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Lamentation
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Image View:
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Detail, a young woman attending Mary; use of high-key colors in unusual combinations
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Creator:
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Pontormo (Italian painter, 1494-1557)
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Location:
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repository: Santa Felicita (Florence, Tuscany, Italy)
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Location Note:
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Cappella Capponi
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GPS:
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+43.766833+11.252636
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Date:
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ca. 1528 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style); Sixteenth century
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Work Type 1:
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altarpiece
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Work Type 2:
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panel painting
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Material:
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oil paint on wood panel
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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313 cm (height) x 192 cm (width)
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Subjects:
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New Testament; Jesus Christ; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
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Description:
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In 1525-1528 Pontormo painted the most important ensemble of his maturity, the decoration of the Capponi Chapel in S Felìcita, Florence (in situ). The altarpiece shows the Lamentation; in the pendentives of the dome are tondi of St John the Evangelist, St Matthew, St Luke, and St Mark, and on the side wall is a fresco of the Annunciation. In the Lamentation, generally acknowledged to be his masterpiece, Pontormo combined a new sense of ornamental beauty, polished surfaces and exquisitely refined line with the insubstantial, floating forms, the spatial irrationality and the poignant communication of feeling that are hallmarks of his Mannerism. The colors, high-keyed, clear blues, acid greens and pinks, with little light and shade, intensify the picture’s strange and haunting grace. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module B: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-PONT-CC-D-A14
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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