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Artist

Pontormo

Year
Pontormo 1494 - 1557 Florence
Price range
1,000,000 – 3,000,000 USD +
Pontormo was a leading early mannerist painter in Florence. He was both a virtuoso draughtsman and a supreme colorist, whose acid combinations still have the power to amaze.

Jacopo Carucci called Pontormo, along with Rosso Fiorentino (1495–1540), was the leading early mannerist painter in Florence. He was both a virtuoso draughtsman and a supreme colorist, whose acid combinations still have the power to amaze. Along with his colleague, Rosso, he shattered the classical balance of his teacher, the “perfect painter” Andrea del Sarto (1486–1530), doyen of modern Florentine painting after the departure of Raphael to Rome. Already by 1515, Pontormo was a successful artist and he was commissioned to produce both altarpieces such as that for Santa Maria Visdomini and such things as ephemeral designs for state pageants, including the grisaille paintings representing Apollo executed to decorate a chariot to be seen in a procession by candlelight.

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Selected Artworks
Market

Top 3 auction prices

365,000 $
2015
725,000 $
2014
812,429 $
2009

Details

The sales are: Sotheby’s New York – 29 Jan 2015 lot 75, Christie’s New York – 29 Jan 2014 lot 166, and Sotheby’s London – 8 Jul 2009 lot 15 (505,250 GBP).
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Notable Exhibitions

New York, Morgan Library and Museum, Pontormo: Miraculous Encounters, 7 September 2018 – 6 January 2019; travelled to Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum 5 February – 28 April 2019. Curated by Bruce Edelstein and Davide Gasparotto.

Frankfurt am Main, Städel Museum, Maniera: Pontormo, Bronzino and Medici Florence, 24 February – 5 June 2016. Curated by Dr. Bastian Eclercy.

Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pontormo, Bronzino, and the Medici: The Transformation of the Renaissance Portrait in Florence, 20 November 2004 – 13 February 2005. Curated by Carl Strehlke.

 

Books on Pontormo

Carlo Falciani and Antonio Natali, eds., Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino: Diverging Paths of Mannerism, exh. cat., Florence, 2014.

Elisabetta Marchetti Letta, Pontormo, Rosso Fiorentino, Florence, 1994.

Philippe Costamagna, Pontormo: l’Opera Completa, Milan, 1994.

Giorgio Vasari, The Lives of the Artist, 1550, trans. Julia Conway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella, New York, 2009.

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