Jacopo Pontormo painted the Visitation (1514–16) for the Church of the Annunciation in Florence, Italy, where the fresco remains. The scene depicts the encounter between Mary and Elizabeth (Luke ...

The craze for fictional embellishment of artists' lives gets an Italian Renaissance airing in "Pontormo -- A Heretical Love." Focusing on the last few months of the mystically intense painter ...

When “Perspective(s),” the French author’s fourth novel, opens in Florence in 1557, authorities have just discovered the artist Jacopo Pontormo stabbed to death in a chapel, next to a fresco ...

Distilling the Annunziata fresco down to its essence, Pontormo has retained those transfigured gazes but confined them to just four women. Their faces possessed of a charged, ...

Left: Jacopo da Pontormo, Daphne and Apollo, 1513, oil on canvas.(Photo courtesy of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine) Right: Jacopo da Pontormo, Apollo and Cupid, 1513, oil on ...

As indicated by its darkened varnish, the painting appeared in The Sopranos before its 2018 restoration.In addition to cleaning, infrared reflectography scans revealed the progression of Pontormo ...

Pontormo’s body is found in the Church of San Lorenzo, beneath a fresco he had been working on, a work of art that — depending on your allegiance — is either “a splendour that has not been ...

Pontormo’s Apollo and Daphne—painted in grisaille, a method of painting in grey monochrome, typically to imitate stone sculpture—is a great example of this tradition. Previously scholars knew about ...

Detail of Pontormo's Deposition (1525‒28) at the Church of Santa Felicita, Florence, after the 2017 restoration with support from Friends of Florence. Photograph by Antonio Quattrone.

When “Perspective(s),” the French author’s fourth novel, opens in Florence in 1557, authorities have just discovered the artist Jacopo Pontormo stabbed to death in a chapel, next to a fresco ...