Jacopo Da Pontormo
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twining poses, ambiguous perspective Art Work
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Jacopo Da Pontormo |
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Male |
| Place of Birth: |
Pontormo, Italy |
| Nationality: |
Italian |
| Birth: |
1494 |
| Death: |
1556 |
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Quick Facts
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twining poses, ambiguous perspective |
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Mannerist |
| Fine Art Profession(s): |
Painting
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Biography
| Jacopo da Pontormo was one of the most inventive Italian artists of the sixteenth century. He worked slowly and methodically, primarily on religious subjects and portraits, and was a superb draftsman, producing a large body of drawings that are among the best examples of the mannerist style. According to biographer Giorgio Vasari, Pontormo was orphaned young and then moved between the studios of Leonardo da Vinci, Piero di Cosimo, and Mariotto Albertinelli before training with Andrea del Sarto in circa 1512. His early works reflect the influence of del Sarto and show Pontormo working in a classical Renaissance style. It was not until around 1517 that the artist began to develop his radically experimental style-partially as a result of studying the work of Michelangelo Buonarotti. He began to elongate his figures, distort perspective, and create complex compositions with great emotional content. One of the first works to exhibit this was the Virgin and Child with Saints (1518). By the 1520s he had established his mature style and his works became characteristically imbued with complex, and often agitated, emotion and slightly unsettling spatial organization. At this time he began to look toward the work of Albrecht Durer for inspiration. Between 1525 and 1528 he worked on the decorative scheme at the church of Santa Felicita's Capponi Chapel in Florence that included his Lamentation (1525-1528) now recognized as one of his best pieces, and particularly noted for its use of brilliant, pure color. Pontormo's last major commission, the decoration of the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence, includes scenes from the Old Testament but was finished, after Pontormo's death, by his former pupil Agnolo Bronzino. |
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