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The Triumph of the City
The High Renaissance
&
Mannerism
(Renaissance Art Map)
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Rosso
Fiorentino
Pontormo
Andrea del Sarto
ROSSO FIORENTINO'S "DEPOSITION" AND PONTORMO'S "VISITATION"
Both students of Andrea del Sarto, Rosso Fiorentino and Jacopo Pontormo were among the most ardent anti-classical interpreters of Renaissance developments, and particularly those of Michelangelo. The Deposition by Rosso and the Visitation by Pontormo show how the restless Florentine culture could take the striking colours and daring compositional formulae of the Sistine chapel and apply them to works of extreme formalism. Sometimes their use was highly figurative, as in the expressive moments of the Deposition, and at others they were employed in fluent and transparent chromatic fields, as in the Visitation. In the metaphysical setting of Rosso's altarpiece, the figures are positioned in sharp planes of light and shade. Pontormo's painting appears to have a double image, the onlookers repeating the features of the protagonists in a frontal view, Florentine painting was reaching a disconcerting crisis with this juxtaposition of reality and illusion, and search for spiritual meaning.
Rosso Fiorentino(b Florence, 8 March 1494; d ?Fontainebleau, 14 Nov 1540).
Italian painter and draughtsman, active also in France. He was a major Florentine Mannerist , whose art is both elegant and emotionally intense. He was influential in Rome, and in Paris and Fontainebleau became one of a group of Italian artists who were instrumental in pioneering a northern, more secular Mannerism.
Rosso Fiorentino
Deposition
1521
Oil on wood, 375 x 196 cm
Cathedral, Volterra
