Ancient Prototypes Reinstantiated: Zuccari's Encounter of Christ and Veronica of 1594

• Autores: Livia Stoenescu
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 93, Nº 4, 2011, págs. 423-448
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The treatment of Veronica’s veil in Federico Zuccari’s The Encounter of Christ and Veronica on the Way to Calvary reflects less the significance of the relic venerated at St. Peter’s, Rome, than the artist’s intention of inscribing the narrative of the veil within a Christocentric image. By emphasizing narrative and the replication of Early Christian prototypes, such as icons, medallic portraits of Christ, and late medieval woodcuts, Zuccari opposed his painting to the devotional and iconic parameters set by post-Tridentine ecclesiastical patrons and theorists, more concerned with establishing continuity with the Apostolic past and the classical beauty of Greco-Roman art.