Pontormo’s real name was Jacopo Carrucci, born on May 24 or 25, 1494 in Pontormo, Tuscany, after which he would later be named. In the year of Pontormo’s birth, Italy was caught in a time of great unrest and upheaval, with King Charles VIII of France invading the peninsula and initiating the Great Italian Wars. As a result the Medici family, which had actively endorsed commissions in fine art and encouraged competition among painters, was cast out of Florence in the same year, ending a golden era of for artists in Italy.
1514. Fresco. 91 x 150 cm. Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, Italy.
1514-1516. Fresco. 392 x 337 cm. Santissima Annunziata, Chiostrino dei Voti, Florence, Italy. Read Note.
1514. Fresco. 223 x 196 cm. Santissima Annunziata, Chiostrino dei Voti, Florence, Italy.
1515. Fresco. 307 x 413 cm. Santa Maria Novella, Cappella pontificale, Florence, Italy.
1515. Fresco. 307 x 413 cm. Santa Maria Novella, Cappella pontificale, Florence, Italy.
1515. Fresco. 307 x 413 cm. Santa Maria Novella, Cappella pontificale, Florence, Italy.
c.1515-1520. Black chalk. 42 x 27 cm. Staatliche Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main; Germany.
1515-1516. Oil on wood. 36 x 142 cm. Private collection, on permanent loan to the National Gallery, London, UK. Read Note.
1515-1516. Oil on wood. 36 x 142 cm. Private collection, on permanent loan to the National Gallery, London, UK.
1515-1516. Oil on wood. 36 x 142 cm. Private collection, on permanent loan to the National Gallery, London, UK.
1515-1516. Oil on wood. 36 x 142 cm. Private collection, on permanent loan to the National Gallery, London, UK.
c.1516-1517. Oil on wood. 70 x 54 cm. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy.
1516-1517. Oil on wood. 58 x 50 cm. Private collection, on permanent loan to the National Gallery, London, UK. Read Note.
1517. Oil on wood. 58 x 50 cm. Private collection, on permanent loan to the National Gallery, London, UK. Read Note.
1517-1518. Red chalk, 41 x 27 cm. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France.
c.1517-1518. Oil on wood. 69 x 50 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.
1517-1518. Oil on wood. 93 x 110 cm. National Gallery, London, UK. Read Note.
1518. Oil on paper. 214 x 185 cm. San Michele Visdomini, Florence, Italy.
c.1518-1519. Oil on wood. 86 x 67 cm. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy.
1518-1519. Oil on wood. 86 x 65 cm. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy. Read Note.
Pontormo, Bronzino, and the Medici: The Transformation of the Renaissance Portrait in Florence by Carl Brandon Strehlke. Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 2004.
Pontormo: Paintings and Frescoes by Salvatore S. Nigro. ABRAMS, 1994.
Pontormo, Bronzino, and Allori: A Geneaology of Florentine Art by Elizabeth Pilliod. Yale University Press, 2001.
Pontormo by Marco Dolcetta, Elena Mazour, Federico Zeri. NDE Publishing, 2000.
Jacopo Carucci Da Pontormo, His Life and Work by Frederick Mortimer Clapp. Nabu Press, 2010.