Best Pontormo
Jacopo Pontormo painted this large panel between 1525 and 1528 for the Capponi Chapel in Santa Felicita, Florence, where it remains. Commonly called the Entombment or Deposition, it shows a tightly interwoven group carrying Christ's body, but omits a clearly depicted cross, tomb, or stable ground. I...
Pontormo's Vertumnus and Pomona is a lunette fresco painted around 1519 to 1521 at the Medici villa in Poggio a Caiano, Tuscany. It depicts figures and vegetation associated with the classical story of the Roman deities Vertumnus and Pomona, though the scene is arranged as an enigmatic pastoral gath...
Jacopo Pontormo painted a cycle of Passion frescos for the Certosa del Galluzzo, a Carthusian monastery near Florence, between 1523 and 1525. The compositions drew on Albrecht Dürer's printed Passion imagery while translating those models into Pontormo's elongated figures, unsettled spaces, and expr...
