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BRF0108 Flat-B

Title

Subject

Jesus Christ - Passion

Description

This chalk drawing by an unknown Italian artist was identified recently as an early copy of Jacopo da Pontormo’s now-ruined fresco of Christ Carrying the Cross, painted in 1525 at the Certosa da Galluzo near Florence. In his Lives of the Artists (1550), Giorgio Vasari noted that Pontormo’s fresco was deeply indebted to Dürer’s woodcuts.

Creator

Pontormo, Jacopo, 1494–1557 (follower)

Source

BRF108 Flat-B. Follower of Jacopo Pontormo (1494–1557). Christ Carrying the Cross. Chalk drawing. Florence, 16th century.

Publisher

Bridwell Library Special Collections

Date

Rights

Please cite Bridwell Library Special Collections, SMU, as the source of this file. A high-resolution version of this file may be obtained by contacting Special Collections (bridsc@smu.edu).

Relation

Influence

Format

Displayed as .jpg

Language

Type

Red chalk drawing on tinted paper

Collection

Books and Prints by Albrecht Durer

Citation

Pontormo, Jacopo, 1494–1557 (follower), “BRF0108 Flat-B,” Bridwell Library Special Collections Exhibitions, accessed April 26, 2024, https://bridwell.omeka.net/items/show/1862.