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 ...

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 ...

Jacopo Pontormo's Florentine Renaissance altarpiece, ... All the paintings and drawings are dated between 1528 and 1530, when Pontormo was in his mid-30s.

An Intimate Pontormo Show Outshines The Met's Big Delacroix Retrospective In the age of blockbuster art exhibitions, a small show sometimes makes just as big an impression as a large one. That's ...

And although moving toward independence, he continued to work with Pontormo on large-scale paintings. In such paintings it can be difficult to sort out the contribution of one artist from another.

Pontormo’s sketch was quick and gestural, with frequent adjustments to elements such as the orientation of one of the women’s feet. Jacopo da Pontormo, The Visitation (1528–30).

Last May, Tim Nickodemus visited the Certosa del Galluzzo, a Carthusian monastery outside Florence. While standing beneath the Jacopo da Pontormo frescoes painted on the walls of the monastery ...

Their lives bridged three centuries — Pontormo lived from 1494 to 1557, and Caravaggio was born in 1571 and died in 1610 — and their contrast couldn’t be starker, with Pontormo’s paintings ...

For four weeks in January and February, the BCMA lent its painting Apollo and Daphne (1513) by the Florentine mannerist Jacopo da Pontormo (1494–1557) to a special exhibition Grey Matters at Nicholas ...

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 ...