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Pontormo
Italian Mannerist Painter, 1494-ca.1556
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.
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Painting ID:: 29857
Madonna and Child with SS.Jerome and Francis and Two Angels
mk67
Oil on panel
28 3/4x24in
Uffizi,Gallery
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Painting ID:: 33233
Portrait of a young Man
mk83
c.1522
Oil on wood
85x61cm
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Painting ID:: 33241
Vertumnus and Pomona
mk83
1519-1521
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Painting ID:: 33462
Joseph in Egypt
mk86
c.1515
Oil on wood
96.5x109.5cm
London,National Gallery
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Painting ID:: 33500
Deposition
mk86
c.1526-1528
Oil on wood
313x192cm
Florence,Santa Felicita,Cappella Bardori
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Pontormo
Italian Mannerist Painter, 1494-ca.1556
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.
. Related Artists to Pontormo: | Mancini, Antonio | Benjamin Cam Norton | TERBRUGGHEN, Hendrick | Vassily Kandinsky | Lauret Aine |
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