JACOPO DA See also: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
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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
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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
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The most extensive See also:series of See also:works which he ever undertook was a set of frescoes in the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
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 (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
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
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They were finished by Angelo See also:Bronzino, but have See also:long since vanished under whitewash
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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
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He was fond of new and See also:odd experiments both in style of See also:art and in method of See also:painting
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From Da Vinci he caught one of the marked physiognomic traits of his visages, See also:smiles and dimples
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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
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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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