Italian Renaissance Painting: The Sixteenth Century

Professor David Rosand

Florentine Painting (cont.)

Reading assignments:

Vasari, Lives of the Artists, vol. 2: Lives of Andrea del Sarto (pp. 129-68), Giovanni Battista Rosso (pp. 169-84), Jacopo Pontormo (pp. 235-72)

Friedlaender, Mannerism and Antimannerism in Italian Painting, pp. 3-43 ("The Anticlassical Style")


Andrea del Sarto (1486-1531)

Madonna of the Harpies (1517). Panel, 207 x 178 cm. Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi

Annunciation (ca. 1527-28). Panel, 26 x 189 cm. Panel. Florence, Palazzo Pitti

Lamentation (ca. 1520). Panel, 99 x 120 cm. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum


Jacopo Pontormo (1494-1556)

Deposition (1525-26). Panel, 313 x 192 cm. Florence, Santa Felicita (Capponi Chapel)

Annunciation 1526-27). Fresco.Florence, Santa Felicita (Capponi Chapel)

Madonna and Child with St. Anne and Other Saints (ca. 1528-29). Panel, 228 x 176 cm. Paris, Musee du Louvre

Visitation (1529-30). Panel, 202 x 156 cm. Carmignano, Parish church of Pieve di San Michele

Giovanni della Casa (ca. 1541-44). Panel, 102.1 x 78.8 cm. Washington, National Gallery of Art


Giovanbattista Rosso Fiorentino (1495-1540)

Deposition (1521). Panel, 333 x 196 cm. Volterra, Pinacoteca

Moses defending the Daughters of Jethro (ca. 1523). Canvas, 160 x 117 cm. Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi

Dead Christ with Angels (ca. 1534-27) Panel, 133.5 x 104.1 cm. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts


Agnolo Bronzino (1503-72)

St. John the Baptist (ca. 1550-50). Panel, 120 x 92 cm. Rome, Galleria Borghese

Allegory with Venus and Cupid (ca. 1545). Panel, 146 x 116 cm. London, National Gallery

Deposition (1542-45). Panel, 268 x 173 cm. Besancon, Musee des Beaux Arts

Eleonora da Toledo and her Son Giovanni de' Medici (ca. 1545) Panel, 115 x 96 cm. Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi

Cosimo I de' Medici in Armor (ca. 1545). Panel, 86 x 67 cm. Toledo, Museum of Art

Andrea Doria as Neptune (ca. 1535-40). Panel, 115 x 53 cm. Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera

Young Woman and her Son (ca. 1540). Panel, 99.5 x 76 cm. Washington, National Gallery of Art

Further suggested reading and/or consultation:

John Shearman, Pontormo's Altarpiece in S Felicita (Charlton Lecture: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1971)

Leo Steinberg, "Pontormo's Capponi Chapel," Art Bulletin 56 (1974): 385-99

Janet Cox-Rearick, Dynasty and Destiny in Medici Art: Pontormo, Leo X, and the Two Cosimos (Princeton, 1984)

Salvatore Nigro, Pontormo: Paintings and Frescoes (New York, 1994)

John Shearman, "The 'Dead Christ' by Rosso Fiorentino," Boston Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin 64 (1966): 148-72

David Franklin, Rosso in Italy (New Haven and London, 1994)

Janet Cox-Rearick, Bronzino's Chapel of Eleanora in the Palazzo Vecchio (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1993)

Charles McCorquodale, Bronzino (New York, 1981)