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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:: 62059
Card Lei Ji and Kasi Taylor
mk276 1535 frescos years 26.9 x 29.5cm Florence Art Gallery
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Painting ID:: 62060
Card Lei Ji and Kasi Taylor
mk276 1535 frescos years 26.9 x 29.5cm Florence Art Gallery
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Painting ID:: 62061
Jupiter and Apollo
mk276 1513 Oil Painting 61 x 47.3cm years Wolfsburg Booker Levi Cornell University
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Painting ID:: 62062
Apollo and Daphne
mk276 1513 Oil Painting 60 x 47.3cm years Wolfsburg Booker Levi Cornell University
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Painting ID:: 62063
Card Lei Ji and Kasi Taylor
mk276 1543 mural years Museum of Art in Florence, 19.9 x 31.8cm
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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: | hertervig | Juan Antonio Escalante | Dirck Hals | Francois Auguste Biard | Auguste Bouvier |
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