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Jacopo Pontormo
Italian 1494-1557 Jacopo Pontormo Galleries
Italian painter and draughtsman. He was the leading painter in mid-16th-century Florence and one of the most original and extraordinary of Mannerist artists. His eccentric personality, solitary and slow working habits and capricious attitude towards his patrons are described by Vasari; his own diary, which covers the years 1554-6, further reveals a character with neurotic and secretive aspects. Pontormo enjoyed the protection of the Medici family throughout his career but, unlike Agnolo Bronzino and Giorgio Vasari, did not become court painter. His subjective portrait style did not lend itself to the state portrait. He produced few mythological works and after 1540 devoted himself almost exclusively to religious subjects. His drawings, mainly figure studies in red and black chalk, are among the highest expressions of the great Florentine tradition of draughtsmanship; close to 400 survive, forming arguably the most important body of drawings by a Mannerist painter. His highly personal style was much influenced by Michelangelo, though he also drew on northern art, primarily the prints of Albrecht Derer.
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Painting ID:: 1608
Punishment of the Baker
National Gallery, London
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Painting ID:: 1610
Joseph being Sold to Potiphar
National Gallery, London
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Painting ID:: 20146
The Virgin and Child with Four Saints and the Good Thief with (mk05)
Before 1529
Wood 90 x 69 1/4''(228 x 176 cm)Entered the Louvre in 1814
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Painting ID:: 23452
The Visitation (nn03)
1530/32
Oil on panel 202 x 156 cm 79 1/2 x 61 1/2 in
Pieve di San Michele Carmignano
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Painting ID:: 30485
Deposition
mk68
Oil on wood
Florence
Church of Santa Felicita
c.1528
Italy
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Jacopo Pontormo
Italian 1494-1557 Jacopo Pontormo Galleries
Italian painter and draughtsman. He was the leading painter in mid-16th-century Florence and one of the most original and extraordinary of Mannerist artists. His eccentric personality, solitary and slow working habits and capricious attitude towards his patrons are described by Vasari; his own diary, which covers the years 1554-6, further reveals a character with neurotic and secretive aspects. Pontormo enjoyed the protection of the Medici family throughout his career but, unlike Agnolo Bronzino and Giorgio Vasari, did not become court painter. His subjective portrait style did not lend itself to the state portrait. He produced few mythological works and after 1540 devoted himself almost exclusively to religious subjects. His drawings, mainly figure studies in red and black chalk, are among the highest expressions of the great Florentine tradition of draughtsmanship; close to 400 survive, forming arguably the most important body of drawings by a Mannerist painter. His highly personal style was much influenced by Michelangelo, though he also drew on northern art, primarily the prints of Albrecht Derer.
. Related Artists to Jacopo Pontormo: | Wille Pierre Alexandre | Giuseppe de nittis | Charles Dixon | FRUEAUF, Rueland the Younger | VALKENBORCH, Lucas van |
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