Bronzino's Uffizi 'Pietà' and the Cambi Chapel in S. Trinita, Florence

• Autores: Louis Alexander Waldman
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 139, Nº 1127, 1997, págs. 95-102
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • There has been much scholarly conjecture about the date and early history of Bronzino's Pieta with Mary Magdalen in the Uffizi (Fig. 16). ' Earlier this century its attribution was disputed between artists as diverse as Pontormo and Santi di Tito and, although Bronzino's authorship is no longer in doubt - his signature emerged during restoration in 1989 - central questions about the work's original location, patron, and function have remained unanswered. All that has hitherto been known is that the Pieta was removed from S. Trinita, Florence, in 1810, and reached the Uffizi between 1870 and 1925. However, newly-discovered documents (see the Appendix below) now reveal its date and patron as well as its original site in the church. This information opens the way to an understanding of some of the panel's more striking and anomalous features.