Oil On Canvas, Real Flavor of Old Masters

Pontormo

Pontormo 11,000 victims oil painting on canvas
11,000 victims
Painting ID::  62037
new21/Pontormo-243924.jpg



Pontormo 11,000 victims oil painting on canvas



Visit European Gallery


  Pontormo
  Italian Mannerist Painter, 1494-ca.1556 Italian painter and draughtsman. He was the leading painter in mid-16th-century Florence and one of the most original and extraordinary of Mannerist artists. His eccentric personality, solitary and slow working habits and capricious attitude towards his patrons are described by Vasari; his own diary, which covers the years 1554-6, further reveals a character with neurotic and secretive aspects. Pontormo enjoyed the protection of the Medici family throughout his career but, unlike Agnolo Bronzino and Giorgio Vasari, did not become court painter. His subjective portrait style did not lend itself to the state portrait. He produced few mythological works and after 1540 devoted himself almost exclusively to religious subjects. His drawings, mainly figure studies in red and black chalk, are among the highest expressions of the great Florentine tradition of draughtsmanship; close to 400 survive, forming arguably the most important body of drawings by a Mannerist painter.
  11,000 victims
  mk276 1529 Oil on canvas 65 x 73 cm Florence, National Museum of Art, DE

  Related Paintings::.
  | malarens bord | The Hay Harvest | The Deathe of Lucretia |


Prev Painting       Next Painting