- 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.