In his decoration of the Capponi chapel, Jacopo Pontormo simultaneously emphasized and sought to transcend the limitations of the painted medium through a set of carefully deployed formal tensions that evoked the paragone with sculpture. A reconsideration of this monument in conjunction with a closer reading of his views on the paragone reveals the theological epistemology that underlies what has been previously considered a purely aesthetic debate. This framework serves to demonstrate Pontormo’s deep engagement with questions regarding the artist’s newly evolving role as a creator, rather than as an imitator, of divine imagery, and offers a new interpretation of his representation of the figure of Nicodemus in the altarpiece.

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蓬托尔莫卡波尼教堂的绘画神学和典范

在卡波尼教堂的装饰中，雅格布·蓬托尔莫同时强调并试图通过一系列精心布置的形式张力来超越绘画媒介的局限性，这些张力用雕塑唤起了典范。重新考虑这座纪念碑并仔细阅读他对典范的看法，揭示了先前被认为是纯粹美学辩论的基础的神学认识论。这个框架有助于展示蓬托尔莫对有关艺术家新演变的角色作为神圣意象的创造者而不是模仿者的问题的深入参与，并提供了对他在祭坛画中尼哥底母形象的表现的新解释。