|
|
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:: 89506
St John the Evangelist
1525(1525)
Medium oil on wood
cyf
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Painting ID:: 89680
Madonna and Child with Saints
1518(1518)
Medium oil on panel
cyf
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Painting ID:: 89768
The Expulsion from Earthly Paradise
1535(1535)
Medium oil on panel
cyf
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Painting ID:: 89810
Bubender Hl. Hieronymus
1527-1528
Medium oil on panel
Dimensions Deutsch: 105 x 80 cm
cjr
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Painting ID:: 89817
Leda and the Swan
between 1512(1512) and 1513(1513)
Medium Oil on wood
cyf
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| 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: | Hans von Kulmbach | Victor DeGrailly | MIEREVELD, Michiel Jansz. van | Leonard Defrance | Schoonover |
|
|
