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- Title
'Michelangelo's Panel':Content, Context, and Vasari's Buonarroti Altarpiece.
- Authors
Cornelison, Sally J.
- Abstract
When Giorgio Vasari renovated the Florentine church of Santa Croce in the late sixteenth century, he obscured or displaced most of the fourteenth- and fifteenth- century works in its nave to make way for new altars decorated with scenes of Christ’s Passion. But Vasari was not insensitive to the works he replaced with his own, and the Christ Carrying the Cross (1568–72) that he made for the Buonarroti Chapel is deeply indebted to both Franciscan visual traditions and to Santa Croce’s early decorative programme. Vasari also embedded portraits of Michelangelo and Rosso Fiorentino in this panel, and in doing so linked them and himself to an artistic genealogy and new academic tradition. The painting demonstrates that Vasari was as adept at using the content and compositions of his own images to record, manipulate, and promote the artistic past and visual culture of his own age as he was in his Lives of the Artists .
- Subjects
ITALY; VASARI, Giorgio, 1511-1574; SANTA Croce (Church: Florence, Italy); PORTRAITS; MICHELANGELO Buonarroti, 1475-1564; ROSSO Fiorentino, 1494-1540; LIVES of the Artists (Book); FRESCO painting; ALTARPIECES; CHRIST carrying the Cross (Motif); SIXTEENTH century
- Publication
Art History, 2019, Vol 42, Issue 3, p416
- ISSN
0141-6790
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-8365.12453