Jacopo da Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci) (1494 – 1557)

• Was an Italian Mannerist painter and portraitist.
• He was from the Florentine School.
• Pontormo painted in and around Florence, often supported by Medici patronage.
• A foray to Rome, largely to see Michelangelo's work, influenced his later style.
• The displayed painting is a crop from fresco: Vertumnus and Pomona in a lunette, 1519-20 by Pontormo at the Medici country villa at Poggio a Caiano.
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Jacopo da Pontormo, Portrait of Alessandro de' Medici, 1534-35

Original, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Visited in 2018-2020.

Jacopo da Pontormo, Portrait of Alessandro de' Medici, 1534-35

Jacopo da Pontormo, Virgin and Child with Three Angels, First Half of the 16th century

Original, Szepmuveszeti, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. Visited in 2019.

Jacopo da Pontormo, Portrait of a fine stone engraver, around 1517-1518

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Jacopo da Pontormo, Portrait of a fine stone engraver, around 1517-1518

Jacopo da Pontormo, The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and four saints (Sebastian, Peter, Benedict and the Good Thief), 1527-1529

Original, Louvre Museum, Paris. Visited in 2021.

Jacopo da Pontormo, The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and four saints (Sebastian, Peter, Benedict and the Good Thief), 1527-1529

Jacopo da Pontormo, Portrait of Maria Salviati de' Medici and Giulia de' Medici, ca. 1539

Original, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland. Visited in 2021.

Jacopo da Pontormo, Portrait of Maria Salviati de' Medici and Giulia de' Medici, ca. 1539

Jacopo da Pontormo, Pharaoh with his Butler and Baker from Scenes from the Story of Joseph, about 1515

Original, The National Gallery, London. Visited in 2018-19.

Jacopo da Pontormo, Pharaoh with his Butler and Baker from Scenes from the Story of Joseph, about 1515

Jacopo da Pontormo, Joseph with Jacob in Egypt from Scenes from the Story of Joseph, probably 1518

Original, The National Gallery, London. Visited in 2018-19.

Jacopo da Pontormo, Joseph with Jacob in Egypt from Scenes from the Story of Joseph, probably 1518

Studio of Jacopo da Pontormo, Madonna and Child with Two Angels, ca. 1525

Original, Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Visited in 2022.

Studio of Jacopo da Pontormo, Madonna and Child with Two Angels, ca. 1525