Pontormo’s “Visitation” visits the Getty
“Visitation” (about 1520), by Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci). Oil on wood panel. Su concessione della Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per la Città Metropolitana di Firenze e per le Province di Pistoia e Prato. Photo © Antonio Quattrone, FlorenceHeaven scent “Miraculous Encounters: Pontormo from Drawing to Painting” Sure, a mighty retrospective spilling into adjacent galleries can be quite a treat, but at times a few choice works are all that’s needed for an important exhibition; and that’s what we have now with Jacopo da Pontormo (1494-1557) and a small but elegant show that opened Tuesday at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Brentwood. “Self-Portrait” (about 1526-1528), by Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci). Red chalk on paper tinted with diluted red chalk. © Roberto Palermo / Gabinetto Fotografico delle Gallerie degli Uffizi / Su concessione del Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali e del Turismo. All rights reservedPontormo, a pupil of Andrea del Sarto and teacher of Agnolo Bronzino, was a Florentine painter considered to be in the vanguard of Mannerism, a term largely employed to summarize Italian art from between the High Renaissance and the Baroque, or rather the…
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