Jacopo Carucci, usually known as Jacopo Pontormo or simply Pontormo, was an Italian Mannerist painter and portraitist from the Florentine School.
11 Facts About Pontormo
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Pontormo's work represents a profound stylistic shift from the calm perspectival regularity that characterized the art of the Florentine Renaissance.
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Pontormo is famous for his use of twining poses, coupled with ambiguous perspective; his figures often seem to float in an uncertain environment, unhampered by the forces of gravity.
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Pontormo painted in and around Florence, often supported by Medici patronage.
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An example of Pontormo's early style is a fresco depicting the Visitation of the Virgin and St Elizabeth, with its dancelike, balanced figures, painted from 1514 to 1516.
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In 1522, when the plague broke out in Florence, Pontormo left for the Certosa di Galluzzo, a cloistered Carthusian monastery where the monks followed vows of silence.
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Pontormo painted a series of frescoes, now quite damaged, on the passion and resurrection of Christ.
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Many of Pontormo's works have been damaged, including the lunettes for the cloister in the Carthusian monastery of Galluzo.
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Pontormo's frescoes depicted a Last Judgment day composed of an unsettling morass of writhing figures.
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Vasari's Life of Pontormo depicts him as withdrawn and steeped in neurosis while at the centre of the artists and patrons of his lifetime.
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Fago portrays Pontormo as mired in a lonely and ultimately paranoid dedication to his final Last Judgment project, which he often kept shielded from onlookers.