Pontormo

(Italian ponˈtormo)

(Biography) Jacopo da (ˈjaːkopo da). original name Jacopo Carrucci. 1494–1556, Italian mannerist painter

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This is the catalogue and companion to an exhibition of the work of Italian painter Jacopo da Pontormo (1494-1557), focusing on his Visitation and the relationship between the finished painting and his single extant study for it.

Miraculous Encounters: Pontormo from Drawing to Painting

In the mid-sixteenth century, Jacopo da Pontormo, the lunatic Florentine painter, could claim that while God needed three dimensions to create nature, painters only needed two to re- create it; which, he concluded, "is truly a miraculous, divine artifice." (22) Now we need far less of that artifice, as we can represent and reproduce the world just as it was made-in three dimensions.

Space odyssey: Mario Carpo on the rise of 3-d technology

In place of a Severini came one of her greatest treasures, a powerful and emotionally charged Virgin and Child of around 1518 by Jacopo da Pontormo (1494-1557), the leading and most original painter of his day in Florence (Fig.

The ideological modernist: collector Hester Diamond's New York appartment is an extraordinary ensemble of Renaissance and baroque paintings and sculpture offset by contemporary furniture. She talks to Apollo about her remarkable collecting career, and why she has deliberately spurned conventional 'good taste'

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