FIRSTonline: Pontormo, the restless genius who changed the face of the Renaissance. From October at the Scuderie del Quirinale
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Pontormo
Jacopo Carucci or Carrucci, usually known as Jacopo (da) Pontormo or simply Pontormo, was an Italian Mannerist painter and portraitist from the Florentine School. His work represents a profound stylistic shift from the calm perspectival regularity that characterized the art of the Florentine Renaissance. He is famous for his use of twining poses, coupled with ambiguous perspective; his figures oft…
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culture · Florentine Mannerist painter · painter · draftsperson · also Pontormo, Jacopo da Pontormo, Giacomo Da Pontormo, Iacopo da Pontormo, Carrucci Pontormo, Jacopo Carucci Pontormo
Born 24 May 1494 · Died 31 December 1556 · Q207929
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Wall Street Journal: Pontormo’s ‘Deposition From the Cross’: An Unsettling Sacred Scene
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2026· 2 entries
Wall Street Journal: Pontormo’s ‘Deposition From the Cross’: An Unsettling Sacred Scene
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2023· 2 entries
National Review: Pontormo’s Ghostly Paintings Come to Bowdoin College in Maine
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Bow Doin Polar Bears: Metamorphosis and Malice: Pontormo’s Three Monochrome Paintings from Renaissance Florence and Related Works
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2019· 3 entries
KCRW: 500 Years Later Pontormo Speaks Loud and Clear
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Los Angeles Times: Pontormo’s ‘Visitation,’ a Renaissance masterpiece of extreme imagination, visits the Getty
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Artnet: The UK Was Desperate to Keep This American Billionaire’s Pontormo. Now You Can See It at the Getty
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2004· 1 entry
Variety: Pontormo – A Heretical Love
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1556· 1 entry
Died 1556-12-31.
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1494· 1 entry
Born 1494-05-24.
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