PONTORMO'S Entombment of Christ GUIDING QUESTIONS
The painting is MANNERIST, but is in a chapel built in WHAT STYLE and BY WHO?
Frescos on the right of show what scene? What is that scene all about? Why might Pontormo have painting this on a wall adjacent to the painting on our curriculum? How are the two related?
What is painted in the roundels of the pendentives of the chapel, also by Pontormo?
What has Pontormo NOT INCLUDED in this painting, making the scene slightly ambiguous / hard to identify?
What does this painting almost entirely consist of?
If this were a DEPOSITION, what would be expect to see?
IF THIS WERE AN ENTOMBMENT, WHAT WOULD WE EXPECT TO SEE?
How is the setting of this painting DIFFERENT than the settings of paintings in the High Renaissance?
Does this painting use a pyramidal composition?
Where is your eye supposed to rest in this composition?
Is Mannerism about NATURALISM or ARTIFICALITY?