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Sold Date: 07/03/2009
Channel: Online Auction
Source: eBay
Category: Ethnic, Folk & Native American Art

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BRONZINO portrait of Jacopo Da Pontormo. I had this for over 25 years now in my house. The frame is about 1700 i think and the portrait maybe Italy 1500's-1600's. It's not a photograph , it's a print . It's a very rare piece, maybe a Museum piece. The frame is 19.5 inches long by 15.0 inches wide. The Print on the board is 13.5 inches long by 9.0 inches wide.
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Jacopo Carucci ( May 24 , 1494 — January 2 , 1557 ), usually known as Jacopo da Pontormo , Jacopo Pontormo or simply Pontormo , was an Italian Mannerist painter and portraitist from the Florentine school . He was famous for his use of contorted poses, distorted perspective and peculiar, markedly unnatural colors, which appear to mirror his restless, neurotic temperament.

Jacopo Carucci was born at Pontorme, near Empoli . Vasari relates how the orphaned boy, "young, melancholy and lonely," was shuttled around as a young apprentice:

Jacopo had not been many months in Florence before Bernardo Vettori sent him to stay with Leonardo da Vinci , and then with Mariotto Albertinelli , Piero di Cosimo , and finally, in 1512, with Andrea del Sarto , with whom he did not remain long, for after he had done the cartoons for the arch of the Servites, it does not seem that Andrea bore him any good will, whatever the cause may have been. Pontormo painted only in and around Florence, supported by Medici patronage. A foray to Rome, largely to see Michelangelo 's work, influenced his later style. Haunted faces and elongated bodies are characteristic of his work. An example of Pontormo's early style is The Visitation of the Virgin and St Elizabeth , with its dancelike, balanced figures, painted from 1514 to 1516 for the parish church of St. Michele in Carmignano , a few miles from Florence. In 1519-20 Pontormo also took part in the fresco decoration of the salon of the Medici country villa at Poggio a Caiano , not far from Florence. T he painted frescoes in a pastoral genre style, very uncommon for Florentine painters; their subject was the obscure classical myth of Vertumnus and Pomona in a lunette . In 1522, when the plague broke out in Florence, Pontormo left for the Certosa di Galuzzo, a cloistered Carthusian monastery w the monks followed vows of silence. He painted a series of frescoes, now quite damaged, on the passion and resurrection of Christ

Keywords: Italian painting, print, old frame, Italian painter, Made in Italy, Agnolo Bronzino Italian Masters