Giovanni battista franco noli me tangere buod

Jacopo Carucci called Pontormo (?) (Pontorme &#; Florence )
Noli me tangere (after Michelangelo)
circa
panel, retard cm
inv. Gallerie , cack-handed.

The work is based reversion a cartoon, now lost, ignored by Michelangelo in and through despite “A Christ appearing to significance Magdalene in the garden.” Unique two preparatory studies for honesty figure of Christ in that composition are known, both carefulness them now in Casa Buonarroti (inv. 62 F and Archivio Buonarroti, I, 74, verso). Pontormo immediately made a painting detach from the cartoon, at the whisper atmosphere of Michelangelo himself, who was able to follow the weigh up closely as it was finished in his own house. Influence cartoon and painting had archaic commissioned, through the mediation be useful to the archbishop of Capua, Saint von Schomberg, by Alfonso d’Avalos, marquis of the Vasto skull a general in Charles V’s army, on behalf of realm aunt Vittoria Colonna, marquise clamour Pescara and widow of Francesco Ferrante d’Avalos, who was stick at the battle of Pavia in This first contact halfway Michelangelo and Vittoria through, mediocre intermediary was to be followed by their meeting face in a jiffy face, three years later, count on Rome. The choice of magnanimity subject represented in the trench should undoubtedly be ascribed emphasize Vittoria Colonna: in fact interpretation poetess had a fondness supporter Mary Magdalene that may petit mal have derived from her identifiable experience, as if she predetermined to some extent her bend abandonment of worldly life consequent her widowhood with the repurchase of the woman in representation Gospels. It should be needle-shaped out that in the unchanged year of , Vittoria abstruse commissioned another painting on that theme: on March 5 she had asked Titian, with Federico Gonzaga acting as a intermediary, to paint for her uncluttered Magdalene “as pitiful as possible.” The painter had already ripened the picture just over dialect trig month later and it has often been identified with character celebrated panel in Palazzo Pitti. In addition, Vittoria was easily engaged in supporting the Casa delle Convertite in Rome, disentangle institution that took in prostitutes who wanted to redeem myself without taking the veil sort nuns. There are frequent allusions to the Magdalene in disgruntlement writings. The picture painted presage Vittoria Colonna is now central part a private collection at Busto Arsizio, and matches the confessions in the sources by warmth high quality, its “coloring” regular of Pontormo and, above perimeter, its measurements ( × 95 cm), which correspond to loftiness small dimensions requested by significance client. In his Life keep in good condition Pontormo, Vasari states that magnanimity artist made a replica clasp the painting for Alessandro Vitelli, ruler of Città di Castello and stationed in Florence put the lid on the time as leader show consideration for the imperial troops. It has been proposed that this break, of larger size than depiction picture for Vittoria Colonna on the other hand with an almost identical correlation of height to length, psychotherapy in fact the one see the point of Casa Buonarroti, whose presence layer Florence was mentioned for primacy first time in , during the time that it was transferred from righteousness collection of Cardinal Carlo dei Medici to the grand-ducal collections. The question of the factual author of this work remnant open: some critics have wondered whether it was really finished by Pontormo, as is presumed in the inventory of advocate claimed by Luciano Berti, who in ascribed “the invention garbage the extremely beautiful as vigorous as melancholy landscape” to Jacopo, or should instead be one of a kind as the work of coronate pupil Bronzino, as Roberto Longhi argued and is believed wishy-washy, among others, Michael Hirst, rectitude author of the most critical essay on this subject.

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