Art of don’t see: Pontormo

Historical men of art study art but may don’t see what they comment; a monography about Bronzino(1503-1572), Italian painter has painted, according to opinion of a critical of art this painting(Fig.1) belongs to Bronzino; unfortunately this painting is of master of Bronzino, this is Pontormo; why? I think that is sufficient see very well this painting: the loaded brush of color is typical of Pontormo(Figs.2-3), after the cloth of figures, the folds are very schematic(Fig.4) that we can confront to the Visit(Fig.2), the light is other characteristic of Pontormo, very intense and brilliant is present in Deposition and other paintings(Figs.3-5-6); furthermore the face of this figure remembers other face in Deposition(Fig.7) aforesaid, and the fingers(Figs.9-10) remember some of this figure in same Deposition(Fig.9), hair is very similar(Figs.7-8). This painting is certainly a act of devotion to Catholic believer but we must consider that emerges the original consideration to posture and total absence of drama, it seems a natural gesture of a figure, but no certainly a martyrdom, a natural posture of a man during a moment; we can recognize this subject alone to attribute of arrow, then it is exemplar of laicism predominant in Florence during 16^th century.

Alessandro Lusana   

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