- 著者
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瀬戸 はるか
- 出版者
- 美学会
- 雑誌
- 美学 (ISSN:05200962)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.71, no.1, pp.109-120, 2020 (Released:2022-02-16)
This paper discusses how the painting style of Agnolo Bronzino (1503-72), the
sixteenth century Florentine artist, relates to the art and art theory of contemporary
Northern Italy, through an analysis of the Portrait of Cosimo I in Armour (1543,
Gallerie degli Uffizi). Since Bronzino’s style has primarily been analyzed in relation to
the work of Michelangelo, his most skilled contemporary, earlier interpretations have
tended to obscure Bronzino’s individual characteristics, including his characteristic
use of colours in lifelike representations of clothing and accessories. Although rarely
acknowledged in modern research, this trait was already remarked upon by the
Venetian painter and art writer Paolo Pino, who considered Bronzino one of the best
colourists of his day. I argue that Bronzino developed his style, which also characterises
the Portrait, not in slavish imitation of Michelangelo, but in conscious response to
the North Italian painterly tradition, where colour was very important. This argument
is supported through an examination of the two different debates of the so-called
Paragone, and related works of art of the sixteenth century: in Florence, participants
(including Bronzino) argued that the superiority of painting and sculpture derived from
disegno, whereas in Northern Italy colorito, was considered to be superior to disegno.