Pontormo

British  

/ ponˈtormo /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

In the small Capponi chapel just inside the church of Santa Felicità in Florence, Jacopo Carucci—better known as Pontormo—devised an altarpiece that is among the most imaginative, most stunning visions of a harrowing episode in Christ’s final days on earth.

From The Wall Street Journal

For Pontormo, who studied with Leonardo da Vinci and was influenced by Michelangelo and Dürer, it’s the painting that shows him stylistically emancipated from those giants.

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Yet this strangely compelling work has simultaneously beguiled and baffled art historians for generations, starting with the odd moment that Pontormo chose to depict in his innovative way, isolated from the rest of the narrative.

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But if Pontormo’s chosen scene is unclear, his unorthodox artistic decisions are not.

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As if to emphasize the tumult—Matthew’s Gospel said the world had gone dark, the ground had shaken and rocks had split open while Christ was on the cross—Pontormo rejected the stable pyramidal structure of Renaissance paintings in favor of a freer, highly charged circular composition.

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