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JACOPO DA PONTORMO (1494-1557)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 70 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PONTORMO (1494-1557)  , whose See also:family name was Carucci, See also:Italian painter of the Florentine school, was See also:born at Pantormo in 1494, son of a painter of See also:ordinary ability, was apprenticed to Leonardo da See also:Vinci, and afterwards took lessons from See also:Piero di Cosimo . At the See also:age of eighteen he became a journeyman to See also:Andrea del Sarto, and was remarked as a See also:young See also:man of exceptional accomplishment and promise . Later on, but still in See also:early youth, he executed, in continuation of Andrea's labours, the " Visitation," in the See also:cloister of the Servi in See also:Florence —one of the See also:principal surviving evidences of his See also:powers . The most extensive See also:series of See also:works which he ever undertook was a set of frescoes in the See also:church of S . Lorenzo, Florence, from the " Creation of Man to the See also:Deluge," closing with the " Last See also:Judgment." By this See also:time, towards 1546, he had fallen under the dangerous spell of See also:Michelangelo's See also:colossal See also:genius and super-human See also:style; and See also:Pontormo, after working on at the frescoes for eleven years, See also:left them incomplete, and the See also:object of See also:general disappointment and disparagement . They were finished by Angelo See also:Bronzino, but have See also:long since vanished under whitewash . Among the best works of Pontormo are his portraits, which include the likenesses of various members of the See also:Medici family; they are vigorous, animated and highly finished . He was fond of new and See also:odd experiments both in style of See also:art and in method of See also:painting . From Da Vinci he caught one of the marked physiognomic traits of his visages, See also:smiles and dimples . At one time he took to See also:direct See also:imitation or See also:reproduction of See also:Albert Diirer, and executed a series of paintings founded on the See also:Passion subjects of the See also:German See also:master, not only in See also:composition, but even in such peculiarities as the treatment of draperies, &c . Pontormo died of See also:dropsy on the 2nd of See also:January 1557, mortified at the See also:ill success of his frescoes in S . Lorenzo; he was buried below his See also:work in the Servi .

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