Pontormo’s Ghostly Paintings Come to Bowdoin College in Maine. Left: Jacopo da Pontormo, Daphne and Apollo, 1513, oil on canvas. (Photo courtesy of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick ...

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 ...

‘I don’t need LSD for things to look pretty,’ says Ellen, the artist protagonist of this 1979 New York novel by painter and writer Elaine Kraf (who died in 2013).

Jacopo Pontormo's Florentine Renaissance altarpiece, a quirkily composed and luminously hued painting that had never traveled outside of Italy before, is on view in Los Angeles through April 28 ...

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

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 ...

If you think deepfake pornography is a moral hazard particular to our moment, Laurent Binet has a painting for you. When “Perspective(s),” the French author’s fourth novel, opens in Florence ...

It begins, naturally, with murder. As 1557 dawns, the aging painter Jacopo da Pontormo is found dead in front of the frescoes he has been laboring over for 11 years in the chapel of San Lorenzo ...

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 ...