Title: Entombment
Artist: Jacopo Pontormo
Location: Capponi Chapel, Santa Felicita, Florence
Date: 1525 - 28
- Vertical format gives it a more devotional look
- less linked to the narrative
- not situated anywhere
- style is mannerist - describes a style which focuses on grace to the point of artifice, elongated forms - dismissal of proportions, light,pastel colours - beauty for its own sake - elegant figures, skilled painiting
- style as a socio-political tool
- Values classical art
- Grace becomes an ideal in painting
- meditative composition - subject - eucharist
- Draws viewer into the painting with pastels
- floating figures in background
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