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?