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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:: 62035
Gregory portrait
mk276 1543 Oil on canvas 102 x 97cm Washington National Art Gallery
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Painting ID:: 62037
11,000 victims
mk276 1529 Oil on canvas 65 x 73 cm Florence, National Museum of Art, DE
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Painting ID:: 62038
Do not touch me
mk276 1530 Oil on canvas 172 x 134 cm Museum of Florence Bonar Luciano
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Painting ID:: 62039
Access map
mk276 1530 Oil on canvas 202 x 156cm Camille carvedilol that the church of Saint Michel
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Painting ID:: 62040
Cosimo de Medici
mk276 1530 Oil on canvas 92 x 72cm Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles
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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: | Galland Pierre Victor | Johann Caspar Schneider | John Charles Dollman | Albert Eckhout | James Mcneill Whistler |
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