Jacopo Pontormo is among the strangest artists to have emerged from the Florentine Renaissance, a painter for whom nothing is poised and direct and everything seems on edge. There’s no one like him — ...
Jacopo da Pontormo, “Visitation” (1528–1529), oil on panel, 79 1/2 × 61 7/16 inches, Carmignano, Pieve di San Michele Arcangelo (image courtesy the Morgan Library & Museum) Jacopo da Pontormo was the ...
In the year 787 the Roman Catholic Church, in the Second Council of Nicaea, laid down rules for depiction in sacred art. The objective was to teach the Christian faith to the illiterate masses through ...
Going to The Getty Museum to see the exhibition of drawings and paintings by 16 th - century Italian master Pontormo, I was prepared to pay homage to this great Florentine painter. What I was not ...
The craze for fictional embellishment of artists' lives gets an Italian Renaissance airing in "Pontormo -- A Heretical Love." Focusing on the last few months of the mystically intense painter, helmer ...
Sadly, the name may not mean much. Jacopo Pontormo is a Florentine painter whose fate it was to come of age in the years after the high tide of the High Renaissance. Its vast shadow has left him ...
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