There, I was a man on a mission. I went to see Metamorphosis and Malice, an exhibition gathering the three known monochromatic paintings by Jacopo da Pontormo (1494–1557). They depict Apollo and ...

"Metamorphosis and Malice" brings together three of the only known monochromatic paintings by Pontormo, a leading painter in sixteenth century Florence. In Metamorphosis and Malice, the Bowdoin ...

Plenty of masterful drawings survive for the project, but the clumsy, badly designed recreation here makes a mockery of Pontormo’s visionary aesthetic. No one unfamiliar with this painter’s ...

Pontormo's painting is a large altarpiece from ... which owns Delacroix's largest paintings - too big, too fragile and too famous to leave home - like the spectacular Death of Sardanapalus ...

For the next 10 weeks it is joined by the altarpiece, along with a second handsome Pontormo portrait of a young soldier and four drawings by the artist: a self-portrait plus studies for the ...

by the Florentine mannerist Jacopo da Pontormo (1494–1557) to a special exhibition Grey Matters at Nicholas Hall, a Manhattan gallery specializing in Old Master paintings. The painting has traveled ...

with Pontormo’s paintings enwrapped in light while Caravaggio’s stalk the darkness. Among the painters who had the misfortune of being born too late to escape Michelangelo’s titanic ...

But what has Pontormo’s canvas to do with a mafioso ... As Seen On explores the paintings and sculptures that have made it to the big and small screens—from a Bond villain’s heisted canvas ...

In the year 787 the Roman Catholic Church, in the Second Council of Nicaea, laid down rules for depiction in sacred art. The objective was to teach the Christian faith to the illiterate masses through ...

While standing beneath the Jacopo da Pontormo frescoes painted on the walls of the monastery, Nickodemus was struck by the tactile qualities of the crumbling paintings. Similarly, last year he ...

Temperamentally they were opposites, Pontormo a misanthrope, Bronzino a people person. Yet they developed a close bond, and collaborated on and off for decades. Image The Drawings of Bronzino ...