Pontormo
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Country
Italy
Birth - Death
1494 - 1557
Occupation
Artist
Description
Simple name of renaissance portrait and religious painter Jacopo Carucci, or Jacopo da Pontormo. Haunted faces and elongated bodies are characteristic of his work, a genre known as mannerism. Notable works include the Joseph canvases (telling the story of Joseph), and paintings inside many churches. Also celebrated for his frescoes, such as the Passion series of the Charterhouse of Galluzzo and his deeply expressive drawings, including those for the great decoration of the choir in San Lorenzo (1546-56), destroyed in 1742.
