Jacopo Carucci, usually known as Jacopo da Pontormo, Jacopo Pontormo, or simply Pontormo, was an Italian Mannerist painter and portraitist from the Florentine School. His work represents a profound stylistic shift from the calm perspectival regularity that characterized the art of the Florentine Renaissance. He is famous for his use of twining poses, coupled with ambiguous perspective; his figures often seem to float in an uncertain environment, unhampered by the forces of gravity.
The Descent from the Cross, or Deposition of Christ, is the scene, as depicted in art, from the Gospels' accounts of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus taking Christ down from the cross after his crucifixion. In Byzantine art the topic became popular in the 9th century, and in the West from the 10th century. The Descent from the Cross is the 13th Station of the Cross, and is also the sixth of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
The Deposition from the Cross is an altarpiece, completed in 1528, depicting the Deposition of Christ by the Italian Renaissance painter Jacopo Pontormo. It is broadly considered to be the artist's surviving masterpiece. Painted in oil on canvas, the painting is located above the altar of the Capponi Chapel of the church of Santa Felicita in Florence.
The Dei Altarpiece is an oil on panel painting by Rosso Fiorentino, commissioned in 1509 by the Dei family and completed in 1522. It is now in Florence's Galleria Palatina, whilst the Uffizi holds a preparatory drawing which may be the original idea for the work.
Portrait of a Man in Black or Man in Black in Profile is a c.1520-1522 oil on panel painting by Rosso Fiorentino, now in the Galleria Palatina in Florence. Vasari's Life of Rosso Fiorentino briefly states that he saw several portraits by the artist in homes in Florence, probably produced before Rosso left for Volterra in 1521. How Man entered the Medici-Lorraine collections is unknown, since the first definite mention of the work is an 1815 inventory placing it in the Galleria's Sala dell'Iliade.
Adoration of the Magi is a c.1522-1523 oil on panel painting by Pontormo, produced for the antechamber of Giovan Maria Benitendi's palazzo in Florence and now in the Galleria Palatina in the same city.
Saint John the Baptist as a Boy is an oil on panel painting by Andrea del Sarto, executed c. 1525, now in the Palatine Gallery of the Palazzo Pitti in Florence.
Portrait of a Halberdier, The Halberdier or Man with a Halberd is a 1529-1530 or 1537 oil painting by Pontormo, originally painted on panel and later transferred to canvas. It is now in the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. A preparatory drawing now in Florence's Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe shows the figure in a more frontal and less contraposto pose.
Expulsion from Paradise or the Expulsion of Adam and Eve is an oil on panel painting by Pontormo, now in the Uffizi in Florence, whose Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe also has a preparatory drawing for it. Its dating is also uncertain and varies between c.1519 and c.1543, but is held to be c.1535 by the Uffizi.
Woman with a Basket of Spindles is an oil on panel painting, executed c. 1514-1515, now in the Uffizi in Florence. It is attributed to Pontormo or Andrea del Sarto. The work arrived in the Palazzo Pitti's gallery in 1773, as recorded in a note on the reverse, and in 1784 is was hanging in the Sala dell'Ermafrodito. It was last restored in 1996.
Joseph Sold to Potiphar is a oil on panel painting by Pontormo, executed c. 1515, now in the National Gallery in London. Like The Baker Tortured, Joseph in Egypt and Joseph's Brothers Ask Him For Help, it was originally painted for the Marriage Chamber of the Palazzo Borgherini.
Pharaoh with his Butler and Baker is a oil on panel painting by Pontormo, executed c. 1515, now in the National Gallery, London. Like Joseph Sold to Potiphar, Joseph in Egypt and Joseph's Brothers Beg for Help, it was originally painted for the Marriage Chamber at the Palazzo Borgherini in Florence.
Joseph's Brothers Beg for Help or Joseph Reveals Himself to his Brothers is a oil on panel painting by Pontormo, executed c. 1515, now in the National Gallery in London. Like Joseph in Egypt, Joseph Sold to Potiphar and Pharaoh with his Butler and Baker, it is part of a series of works by the artist on the life of Joseph for the Marriage Chamber of the Palazzo Borgherini in Florence.
The Ten Thousand Martyrs is a oil on panel painting by Pontormo, executed c. 1529-1530, produced for the monks of Florence's Spedale degli Innocenti and now in the city's Galleria Palatina. It shows the martyrdom of the eponymous martyrs alongside Saint Maurice. A copy of the left hand side of the work in the Uffizi is attributed to a young Bronzino.
Scene from Hospital Life is a monochrome fresco fragment by Pontormo, executed c. 1514, originally in Florence's Ospedale di San Matteo, from which it was removed in the 18th century when that building was converted into a museum. It is now in the city's Galleria dell'Accademia.
Madonna of the Book is a c.1540-1545 oil on panel painting by Pontormo, heavily influenced by Michelangelo and now in a private collection. It may be the work described in Lives of the Artists as a "canvas of Our Lady" found among drawings, cartoons and terracotta models in the painter's home after his death and which was then given to Piero Salviati by the painter's heirs.
The Boldrone Shrine is located at the corner of the Via di Boldrone and the Via dell'Osservatorio in the Quarto district of Florence. It was named after the monastery of San Giovanni Evangelista di Boldrone, which was itself named after the French "Boldrone" hermitage founded on that site in the 13th century.
Saint Anthony Abbot is an oil on panel painting by Pontormo, now in the Uffizi in Florence.
Portrait of a Young Man is a oil on panel painting by Pontormo, executed c. 1525-1526, now in the Palazzo Mansi in Lucca. It may show Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence.
Portrait of Maria Salviati is a oil on panel painting attributed to Pontormo, executed c. 1543-1544, in the Uffizi, Florence.
