Jacopo Pontormo : Portrait of a yeoman
Between 1989 and 2002, the painting by Jacopo da Pontormo remained the most expensive work of an old master (Getty Center, Los Angeles). ►
Carrucci Jacopo (Pontormo, 1494 - Florence, 1557), also known as Jacopo da Pontormo , Jacopo Contormo , Or more commonly as Pontormo, was an Italian Renaissance painter.
Jacopo da Contormo : Portrait of a lady in red , 1532. ►
Carrucci Jacopo was born in the town of Pontormo, near Empoli, son of Jacopo di Martino di Bartolomeo Carrucci and Alessandra di Pasquale di Zanobi. Giorgio Vasari, who relates how the orphaned boy was walking "young, alone and melancholy" welcomed him as an apprentice.
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The Descent from the Cross , 1525-1528. ►
Jacopo da Contormo, orphaned child prodigy and became one of the most brilliant painters of the great Florence. He was solitary and eccentric, had major phobias and anxieties, to the extent that Giorgio Vasari feels obliged to point out that "his solitude than imaginable."
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