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Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: 'Il primo huomo da dipingere in fresco, che sia in questi paesi'
Bernardino Poccetti and the Historiography of Florentine Painting during the Late Renaissance
1. 'Grandemente inclinato all'Arte del Disegno'
Filippo Baldinucci's Biography of Bernardino Poccetti
2. 'Le prime cose lodevoli molto'
Bernardino Poccetti's Early Work and the Frescoes from the Life of Saint Dominic in the Chiostro Grande, Santa Maria Novella
3. 'Locum ecclesiae designavit, quae Ioannis et uxoris pecunia extructa est'
Bernardino Poccetti and the Decoration of the Canigiani Chapel in Santa Felicita
4. 'Miracula et alia id genus'
Bernardino Poccetti's Frescoes in the Church of San Lorenzo at the Certosa del Galluzzo
Color Plates
5. 'L'inventore di dipingere tutte le muraglie della nostra chiesa'
Bernardino Poccetti and the Sixteenth-Century Decoration of Santa Maria del Carmine
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations
Color Plates
Plate 1: Andrea del Sarto, Madonna del Sacco, 1525, fresco. Chiostro dei Morti, Santissima Annunziata, Florence. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)
Plate 2: Bernardino Poccetti, Birth of Saint Dominic, c. 1584, fresco. Florence, Santa Maria Novella, Chiostro Grande. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Plate 3: Bernardino Poccetti, Saint Dominic's Text Survives a Trial by Fire, c. 1584, fresco. Florence, Santa Maria Novella, Chiostro Grande. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Plate 4: View of vault with Holy Trinity by Tommaso Gherardini (after 1767) and saints in the pendentives by Bernardino Poccetti (1590), fresco. Florence, Santa Felicita, Canigiani Chapel. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0).
Plate 5: Bernardino Poccetti, The Miraculous Snowfall on the Esquiline Hill and the Foundation of Santa Maria Maggiore, 1590, fresco. Florence, Santa Felicita, Canigiani Chapel. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)
Plate 6: Bernardino Poccetti, Bruno Refuses the Bishopric of Reggio Calabria, 1591-1593, fresco. Galluzzo, Certosa del Galluzzo, Church of San Lorenzo. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)
Plate 7: Bernardino Poccetti, Funeral of Saint Bruno, 1591-1593, fresco. Galluzzo, Certosa del Galluzzo, Church of San Lorenzo. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)
Plate 8: Bernardino Poccetti, Saints, Beati, and Carthusian Priors General, 1591-1593, fresco. Galluzzo, Certosa del Galluzzo, Church of San Lorenzo. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)
Plate 9: Bernardino Poccetti, Saint Bartholomew, 1604, fresco. Florence, San Bartolomeo a Monte Oliveto. Source: author
Plate 10: Bernardino Poccetti, Saint Miniatus, 1604, fresco. Florence, San Bartolomeo a Monte Oliveto. Source: author
Plate 11: Giovanni Antonio Dosio, Gaddi Chapel, 1575-1577. View of colored-marble revetment and tomb. Florence, Santa Maria Novella. Source: author
Plate 12: Giovanni Antonio Dosio, Niccolini Chapel, revetments complete by 1588. View of colored-marble revetment and tomb. Florence, Santa Croce. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0 / detail from original)
Plate 13: Bernardino Poccetti, Saint Dominic Distributes the Proceeds from the Sale of his Books, c. 1584, fresco. Florence, Santa Maria Novella, Chiostro Grande. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Plate 14: Bernardino Poccetti, study for Saint Dominic Distributes the Proceeds from the Sale of his Books (after Andrea del Sarto), black chalk with white heightening. Florence, GDSU (inv. no. 8576 F). Source: Gallerie degli Uffizi, Gabinetto Fotografico
Plate 15: Bernardino Poccetti, Saint Dominic Converts the Heretical Noblewomen, c. 1584, fresco. Florence, Santa Maria Novella, Chiostro Grande. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Plate 16: Bernardino Poccetti, study for The Martyrdom of Saint James, 1590s, black chalk. Florence, GDSU (inv. no. 8791 F). Source: Gallerie degli Uffizi, Gabinetto Fotografico
Black-and-white figures
Fig. 1.1: Filippo Baldinucci, 'Bernardo Barbatelli detto Bernardino Poccetti pittore fiorentino' in Notizie de' professori del disegno (1688). Source: Getty Research Institute. Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content program
Fig. 1.2: Pier Dandini, Filippo Baldinucci and the Accademie della Crusca and del Disegno, late seventeenth-early eighteenth century. Florence, Accademia della Crusca. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)
Fig. 2.1: Bernardo Buontalenti, Palazzo di Bianca Cappello, 1570s. Florence, Via Maggio. Source: author
Fig. 2.2: Bernardino Poccetti, detail of sgraffito facade, Palazzo di Bianca Cappello, 1573-1575. Florence, Via Maggio. Source: author
Fig. 2.3: Federico Zuccaro, Taddeo Copying Raphael's Frescoes in the Loggia of the Villa Farnesina, Where He is Also Represented Asleep, c. 1595, pen and brown ink, brush with brown wash, over black chalk and touches of red chalk (42.4x17.5cm). Los Angele
Fig. 2.4: Bernardino Poccetti, Mission of the Apostles, c. 1584, fresco. Florence, Santa Maria Novella, Chiostro Grande. Source: author.
Fig. 2.5: Domenico Ghirlandaio, Birth of John the Baptist, 1485-1490, fresco. Florence, Santa Maria Novella, Tornabuoni Chapel. Source: Scala / Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali / Art Resource, NY
Fig. 2.6: Andrea del Sarto, Birth of the Virgin, 1514, fresco. Florence, Santissima Annunziata, Chiostrino de' Voti. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)
Fig. 2.7: Andrea del Sarto, The Visitation, 1524, fresco. Florence, Chiostro dello Scalzo. Source: Matt Adams, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Fig. 2.8: Andrea del Sarto, Young Man Taking a Step, with a Basket and Balancing a Sack on his Head. Verso: An Additional Study of the Same Figure, before 1524, black and red chalk. New York, The Morgan Library &
Museum. Source: The Morgan Library &
Museu
Fig. 2.9: Bernardino Poccetti, preparatory design for Saint Dominic Converts the Heretical Noblewomen, c. 1584, pen and brush in brown ink over black chalk. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum (inv. no. RP-T-1957-231). Source: Rijksmuseum (CC0 1.0)
Fig. 2.10: Bernardino Poccetti, preparatory design for Saint Dominic Converts the Heretical Noblewomen, c. 1584, black chalk and white heightening on brown paper. Florence, GDSU (inv. no. 1788 E). Source: Gallerie degli Uffizi, Gabinetto Fotografico
Fig. 2.11: Bernardino Poccetti, preparatory design for Saint Dominic Converts the Heretical Noblewomen, c. 1584, black chalk and white heightening. Florence, GDSU (inv. no. 1789 E). Source: Gallerie degli Uffizi, Gabinetto Fotografico
Fig. 2.12: Sante Pacini, Saint Dominic Converts the Heretical Women (after Bernardino Poccetti), before 1793, black chalk. Paris, Louvre (inv. no. 1485 recto). Source: © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY
Fig. 2.13: Santa Maria Novella, view of west transept, basilica begun 1279. Florence. Source: author.
Fig. 2.14: Bernardino Poccetti, Saint Dominic Preaches a Crusade, c. 1584, fresco. Florence, Santa Maria Novella, Chiostro Grande. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Fig. 2.15: Andrea Bonaiuti, Saint Peter Martyr Preaching, 1365-1366, fresco. Florence, Santa Maria Novella, Guidalotti Chapel. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Fig. 2.16: Bernardino Poccetti, study for Saint Dominic Preaches a Crusade, c. 1584, black chalk and white heightening on blue paper. Florence, GDSU (inv. no. 8615 F). Source: Gallerie degli Uffizi, Gabinetto Fotografico
Fig. 2.17: Bernardino Poccetti, study for Saint Dominic Preaches a Crusade, c. 1584, black chalk and white heightening on blue paper. Florence, GDSU (inv. no. 8630 F). Source: Gallerie degli Uffizi, Gabinetto Fotografico
Fig. 3.1: Santa Felicita, Florence. View of retrofacade with Capponi Chapel on the left and Canigiani Chapel on the right. Source: author
Fig. 3.2: Andrea del Minga, Assumption of the Virgin, 1591, panel. Florence, Santa Felicita, Canigiani Chapel. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)
Fig. 3.3: Bernardino Poccetti, Saint John the Evangelist, 1590, fresco. Florence, Santa Felicita, Canigiani Chapel. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)
Fig. 3.4: Bernardino Poccetti, Saint John the Baptist, 1590, fresco. Florence, Santa Felicita, Canigiani Chapel. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)
Fig. 3.5: Bernardino Poccetti, San Giovanni Gualberto, 1590, fresco. Florence, Santa Felicita, Canigiani Chapel. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)
Fig. 3.6: Bernardino Poccetti, study for San Giovanni Gualberto, 1590, red chalk. Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Kupferstichkabinett (inv. no. KdZ 15466). Source: © bpk Bildagentur / Dietmar Katz.
Fig. 3.7: Bernardino Poccetti, Pope John I (?), 1590, fresco. Florence, Santa Felicita, Canigiani Chapel. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0).
Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: 'Il primo huomo da dipingere in fresco, che sia in questi paesi'
Bernardino Poccetti and the Historiography of Florentine Painting during the Late Renaissance
1. 'Grandemente inclinato all'Arte del Disegno'
Filippo Baldinucci's Biography of Bernardino Poccetti
2. 'Le prime cose lodevoli molto'
Bernardino Poccetti's Early Work and the Frescoes from the Life of Saint Dominic in the Chiostro Grande, Santa Maria Novella
3. 'Locum ecclesiae designavit, quae Ioannis et uxoris pecunia extructa est'
Bernardino Poccetti and the Decoration of the Canigiani Chapel in Santa Felicita
4. 'Miracula et alia id genus'
Bernardino Poccetti's Frescoes in the Church of San Lorenzo at the Certosa del Galluzzo
Color Plates
5. 'L'inventore di dipingere tutte le muraglie della nostra chiesa'
Bernardino Poccetti and the Sixteenth-Century Decoration of Santa Maria del Carmine
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations
Color Plates
Plate 1: Andrea del Sarto, Madonna del Sacco, 1525, fresco. Chiostro dei Morti, Santissima Annunziata, Florence. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)
Plate 2: Bernardino Poccetti, Birth of Saint Dominic, c. 1584, fresco. Florence, Santa Maria Novella, Chiostro Grande. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Plate 3: Bernardino Poccetti, Saint Dominic's Text Survives a Trial by Fire, c. 1584, fresco. Florence, Santa Maria Novella, Chiostro Grande. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Plate 4: View of vault with Holy Trinity by Tommaso Gherardini (after 1767) and saints in the pendentives by Bernardino Poccetti (1590), fresco. Florence, Santa Felicita, Canigiani Chapel. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0).
Plate 5: Bernardino Poccetti, The Miraculous Snowfall on the Esquiline Hill and the Foundation of Santa Maria Maggiore, 1590, fresco. Florence, Santa Felicita, Canigiani Chapel. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)
Plate 6: Bernardino Poccetti, Bruno Refuses the Bishopric of Reggio Calabria, 1591-1593, fresco. Galluzzo, Certosa del Galluzzo, Church of San Lorenzo. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)
Plate 7: Bernardino Poccetti, Funeral of Saint Bruno, 1591-1593, fresco. Galluzzo, Certosa del Galluzzo, Church of San Lorenzo. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)
Plate 8: Bernardino Poccetti, Saints, Beati, and Carthusian Priors General, 1591-1593, fresco. Galluzzo, Certosa del Galluzzo, Church of San Lorenzo. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)
Plate 9: Bernardino Poccetti, Saint Bartholomew, 1604, fresco. Florence, San Bartolomeo a Monte Oliveto. Source: author
Plate 10: Bernardino Poccetti, Saint Miniatus, 1604, fresco. Florence, San Bartolomeo a Monte Oliveto. Source: author
Plate 11: Giovanni Antonio Dosio, Gaddi Chapel, 1575-1577. View of colored-marble revetment and tomb. Florence, Santa Maria Novella. Source: author
Plate 12: Giovanni Antonio Dosio, Niccolini Chapel, revetments complete by 1588. View of colored-marble revetment and tomb. Florence, Santa Croce. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0 / detail from original)
Plate 13: Bernardino Poccetti, Saint Dominic Distributes the Proceeds from the Sale of his Books, c. 1584, fresco. Florence, Santa Maria Novella, Chiostro Grande. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Plate 14: Bernardino Poccetti, study for Saint Dominic Distributes the Proceeds from the Sale of his Books (after Andrea del Sarto), black chalk with white heightening. Florence, GDSU (inv. no. 8576 F). Source: Gallerie degli Uffizi, Gabinetto Fotografico
Plate 15: Bernardino Poccetti, Saint Dominic Converts the Heretical Noblewomen, c. 1584, fresco. Florence, Santa Maria Novella, Chiostro Grande. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Plate 16: Bernardino Poccetti, study for The Martyrdom of Saint James, 1590s, black chalk. Florence, GDSU (inv. no. 8791 F). Source: Gallerie degli Uffizi, Gabinetto Fotografico
Black-and-white figures
Fig. 1.1: Filippo Baldinucci, 'Bernardo Barbatelli detto Bernardino Poccetti pittore fiorentino' in Notizie de' professori del disegno (1688). Source: Getty Research Institute. Digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content program
Fig. 1.2: Pier Dandini, Filippo Baldinucci and the Accademie della Crusca and del Disegno, late seventeenth-early eighteenth century. Florence, Accademia della Crusca. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)
Fig. 2.1: Bernardo Buontalenti, Palazzo di Bianca Cappello, 1570s. Florence, Via Maggio. Source: author
Fig. 2.2: Bernardino Poccetti, detail of sgraffito facade, Palazzo di Bianca Cappello, 1573-1575. Florence, Via Maggio. Source: author
Fig. 2.3: Federico Zuccaro, Taddeo Copying Raphael's Frescoes in the Loggia of the Villa Farnesina, Where He is Also Represented Asleep, c. 1595, pen and brown ink, brush with brown wash, over black chalk and touches of red chalk (42.4x17.5cm). Los Angele
Fig. 2.4: Bernardino Poccetti, Mission of the Apostles, c. 1584, fresco. Florence, Santa Maria Novella, Chiostro Grande. Source: author.
Fig. 2.5: Domenico Ghirlandaio, Birth of John the Baptist, 1485-1490, fresco. Florence, Santa Maria Novella, Tornabuoni Chapel. Source: Scala / Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali / Art Resource, NY
Fig. 2.6: Andrea del Sarto, Birth of the Virgin, 1514, fresco. Florence, Santissima Annunziata, Chiostrino de' Voti. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)
Fig. 2.7: Andrea del Sarto, The Visitation, 1524, fresco. Florence, Chiostro dello Scalzo. Source: Matt Adams, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Fig. 2.8: Andrea del Sarto, Young Man Taking a Step, with a Basket and Balancing a Sack on his Head. Verso: An Additional Study of the Same Figure, before 1524, black and red chalk. New York, The Morgan Library &
Museum. Source: The Morgan Library &
Museu
Fig. 2.9: Bernardino Poccetti, preparatory design for Saint Dominic Converts the Heretical Noblewomen, c. 1584, pen and brush in brown ink over black chalk. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum (inv. no. RP-T-1957-231). Source: Rijksmuseum (CC0 1.0)
Fig. 2.10: Bernardino Poccetti, preparatory design for Saint Dominic Converts the Heretical Noblewomen, c. 1584, black chalk and white heightening on brown paper. Florence, GDSU (inv. no. 1788 E). Source: Gallerie degli Uffizi, Gabinetto Fotografico
Fig. 2.11: Bernardino Poccetti, preparatory design for Saint Dominic Converts the Heretical Noblewomen, c. 1584, black chalk and white heightening. Florence, GDSU (inv. no. 1789 E). Source: Gallerie degli Uffizi, Gabinetto Fotografico
Fig. 2.12: Sante Pacini, Saint Dominic Converts the Heretical Women (after Bernardino Poccetti), before 1793, black chalk. Paris, Louvre (inv. no. 1485 recto). Source: © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY
Fig. 2.13: Santa Maria Novella, view of west transept, basilica begun 1279. Florence. Source: author.
Fig. 2.14: Bernardino Poccetti, Saint Dominic Preaches a Crusade, c. 1584, fresco. Florence, Santa Maria Novella, Chiostro Grande. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Fig. 2.15: Andrea Bonaiuti, Saint Peter Martyr Preaching, 1365-1366, fresco. Florence, Santa Maria Novella, Guidalotti Chapel. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Fig. 2.16: Bernardino Poccetti, study for Saint Dominic Preaches a Crusade, c. 1584, black chalk and white heightening on blue paper. Florence, GDSU (inv. no. 8615 F). Source: Gallerie degli Uffizi, Gabinetto Fotografico
Fig. 2.17: Bernardino Poccetti, study for Saint Dominic Preaches a Crusade, c. 1584, black chalk and white heightening on blue paper. Florence, GDSU (inv. no. 8630 F). Source: Gallerie degli Uffizi, Gabinetto Fotografico
Fig. 3.1: Santa Felicita, Florence. View of retrofacade with Capponi Chapel on the left and Canigiani Chapel on the right. Source: author
Fig. 3.2: Andrea del Minga, Assumption of the Virgin, 1591, panel. Florence, Santa Felicita, Canigiani Chapel. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)
Fig. 3.3: Bernardino Poccetti, Saint John the Evangelist, 1590, fresco. Florence, Santa Felicita, Canigiani Chapel. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)
Fig. 3.4: Bernardino Poccetti, Saint John the Baptist, 1590, fresco. Florence, Santa Felicita, Canigiani Chapel. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)
Fig. 3.5: Bernardino Poccetti, San Giovanni Gualberto, 1590, fresco. Florence, Santa Felicita, Canigiani Chapel. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0)
Fig. 3.6: Bernardino Poccetti, study for San Giovanni Gualberto, 1590, red chalk. Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Kupferstichkabinett (inv. no. KdZ 15466). Source: © bpk Bildagentur / Dietmar Katz.
Fig. 3.7: Bernardino Poccetti, Pope John I (?), 1590, fresco. Florence, Santa Felicita, Canigiani Chapel. Source: Sailko, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0).