Seeing the looking in Pontormo's Vertumnus and Pomona

Author

Phillips, Pamela

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Rutgers art review. 1996, Vol. 16, 36-56, 1 ill.

ISSN

0194-049X

Abstract (en)

Pontormo's fresco for the Medici villa at Poggio a Caiano has been thought to depict, as two of the figures among its dramatis personae, Vertumnus and Pomona from Ovid's Metamorphoses. This paper proposes identifying all the figures as manifestations of Vertumnus and Pomona at different moments in time. The key to this reading is attention to the significance of the gaze, as a leitmotif in Ovid's tale, and in Pontormo's painting, which in turn appropriates the gaze of the beholder into the pictorial fiction.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Pictorial arts -- Painting and drawing -- Italy
• Pontormo (Jacopo Carrucci), 1494-1556
• Mural painting
• Italy
• 1500-1600
• Villa medicea||Poggio a Caiano (ITA)
• Gaze [nonverbal communication]
• Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), 43 B.C.-ca.17 A.D.
• Metamorphoses
• Vertumnus and Pomona
• Vertumnus
• Pomona
• Iconography
• Sources

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Peinture et dessin -- Italie
• Pontormo (Jacopo Carrucci), 1494-1556
• Peinture murale
• Italie
• 1500-1600
• Villa medicea||Poggio a Caiano (ITA)
• Regard
• Ovide (Publius Ovidius Naso), 43 av. J.C.-v.17 ap. J.C.
• Métamorphoses
• Vertumne et Pomone
• Vertumne
• Pomone
• Iconographie
• Sources

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19990401-00202782

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