Art 102 - Survey of Art History 2 » Spring 2022 » Pontormo, Deposition, Pieta or Entombment

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Question #1
Which of the following statements is true of Pontormo's Entombment?
A.   Pontormo found evidence of the divine in the natural world. Pontormo, like most Mannerist painters, was interested in stability and balance.
B.   Pontormo found evidence of the divine in the natural world. Mannerism expresses spirituality differently than the Renaissance, where there was a heavy focus on naturalism. Pontormo, like most Mannerist painters, was interested in stability and balance.
C.   Pontormo was not interested in stability or balance, which were important artistic elements in the Renaissance. Mannerism expresses spirituality differently than the Renaissance, where there was a heavy focus on naturalism. The figures are highly stylized and there is a rejection of the rational spaces of Renaissance paintings.
D.   Pontormo found evidence of the divine in the natural world. Pontormo, like most Mannerist painters, was interested in stability and balance. Pontormo was not interested in stability or balance, which were important artistic elements in the Renaissance.
Question #2
Which historical circumstances may have had an influence on the Mannerist style we see in this painting?
A.   the invention of the printing press and the Protestant Reformation
B.   the rule of the Medici and the dissolution of the Florentine Republic and the Protestant Reformation
C.   the invention of the printing press and the rediscovery of Gothic art
D.   the rule of the Medici and the dissolution of the Florentine Republic and the rediscovery of Gothic art

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