Pontormo

Jacopo da Pontormo ( born May 24, 1494 in Pontormo, now a suburb of Empoli in the province of Florence; † January 2, 1557 in Florence; actually Jacopo Carrucci ) was an Italian painter and next Rosso Fiorentino, Agnolo Bronzino and Giorgio Vasari, one of the main representative of Florentine Mannerism.

He painted numerous frescoes, altarpieces and portraits. A part of his work was commissioned by the Medici.

Life and work

The on the 24th or 25th Soon ( exact date unknown), born painter was the son of Bartolommeo di Jacopo Ghirlandaio 's pupil di Martino Carucci and his wife Alessandra di Pasquale di Zanobi. He is named after his birthplace Pontormo, which is a suburb of Empoli in the province of Florence today. As Jacopo was five years old, his father died when he was ten his mother. From this point on, he lived with his grandmother Mona Brigida. The grandmother let him teach reading, writing and the Broad grammar and took him at the age of 13 years at a distant uncle in Florence under.

1508 Pontormo came to Florence, where he was successively a pupil of Leonardo da Vinci, Mariotto Albertinelli, Piero di Cosimo and Andrea del Sarto. His first documented by payment certificates work was a coat of arms of Leo X with the Holy Fides and Caritas for the Santissima Annunziata church in Florence. According to Vasari, Michelangelo saw the work and donated the highest praise. In the next period of his creative Pontormo received many commissions from the Medici, for which he, inter alia, a portrait of Cosimo de ' Medici, called Il Vecchio painted, one of his best known works.

In 1519 he was awarded the contract for the furnishing of a room in the summer villa of the Medici at Poggio a Caiano. Theme of the fresco is Vertumnus and Pomona, mythological personifications of garden and seasonal changes.

During the great plague in Florence, he equipped the cloister of the Carthusian Monastery of Galuzzo with a Passion cycle. Pontormo's best -preserved altarpiece is an Entombment of Christ in a chapel of the Florentine church of Santa Felicita, an Order of Gino Capponi. The image is regarded as a masterpiece of Florentine Mannerism.

Pontormo's exact date of death is not known. He was buried on January 2, 1557 in the church of Santissima Annunziata in Florence.

His work fell into oblivion in a row, or has been, long devaluation of his painting in particular and of Mannerism in general in art history because of a little appreciated, not least due to the scathing criticism of his biographer Giorgio Vasari. A turning point in the estimation of the artist began with the 1912 published studies of the American art historian Frederick Mortimer Clapp to Pontormo's Entombment of Christ image.

Works

  • Visitation, 1514-1516, Fresco, 392 x 337 cm, Santissima Annunziata, Florence (pictured right above).
  • Cosimo de 'Medici il Vecchio, 1518, wood, wood, 87 × 65 cm. Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi (right figure below).
  • Joseph in Egypt, 93x110 cm, 1515-1518, The National Gallery, London.
  • Archangel Michael to 1518-1519, Fresco, 173 x 59 cm. Pontormo, S. Michele.
  • Adoration of the Magi, 1520, wood, 85 × 191 cm. Florence, Palazzo Pitti.
  • Portrait of a lady in red dress, wood, 90 × 71 cm. Frankfurt am Main, Städel
  • Portrait of a young man to 1522-1525, wood, 85 × 61 cm. Lucca, Pinacoteca Civica.
  • Visitation, 1528-1529, oil on wood, 202 × 156 cm, Parish Church of Carmignano.
  • Portrait of a Cardinal, 1532, wood, 103 x 86 cm. Galleria Borghese, Rome.
  • The Halberdier, 1529-1530, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Exhibitions

  • Pontormo - Masterpieces of Mannerism in Florence. Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover, 2013.
  • Pontormo, Bronzino, and the Medici. The Transformation of the Renaissance Portrait in Florence. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2004.
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