|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
|
Painting ID:: 44904
Cosimo de Medici the Elder
mk176
c.1518
87x65cm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Painting ID:: 50994
Madonna and Child with Saints
1518 Oil on wood, 214 x 185 cm San Michele Visdomini, Florence Pontormo executed this celebrated painting for the chapel of Francesco di Giovanni Pucci in the church San Michele Visdomini in Florence.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Painting ID:: 51770
Saint Matthew
nn09
c.1527-28
Oil on wood
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Painting ID:: 52202
Sacra Conversazione
1514 Fresco, 223 x 196 cm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Painting ID:: 52283
Madonna and Child with the Young St John
c. 1528 Oil on wood, 89 x 74 cm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Prev Artist Next Artist
|
|
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: | Richard Cobden | Luca Penni | James Pryde and William Nicholson | Cornelis Lieste | Adolphe William Bouguereau |
|
|
