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Pontormo

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Pontormo
Jacopo da . original name Jacopo Carrucci. 1494--1556, Italian mannerist painter


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The plastic representation of death of the paintings of the Italian Mannerist painters Rosso Fiorentino and Pontormo is opposed to the atrocious reality of Stracci's death.
JJ) Pontormo - Deposition (c1526-8), Portrait of a Halberdier (1529) The fragile coloured forms wafting in the violet air of Pontormo's incredible Deposition are "bodies" only in the most perfunctory sense: the people grieving for Christ in their cascade of red and pink and blue draperies that crinkle like crêpe paper in the picture's shallow box are creatures of pure emotion, enfleshed by colour.
The early modern painters treated include Van Eyck, Botticelli, Bellini, Durer, Parmigianino, Correggio, Pontormo, Bronzino, Arcimboldo, Veronese, Caravaggio, de la Tour, Velazquez, and Rembrandt, but these are freely intermingled with moderns such as Manet, Van Gogh, Lega, Degas, Caillebotte, Redon, Boccioni, Dali, and Norman Rockwell.
 
 
 
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