Word: pontormo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...masterpiece of the exhibition is easily Jacopo Pontormo's Annunciation. Rarely, in this country, has the troubling 16th century mannerist been represented by such an ethereal, yet commanding, picture. Looming above the onlooker, Pontormo's Angel Gabriel is shown as a dissipated Florentine gallant with an exquisite shell-pink ear, hennaed locks and a flattened head. As for the Virgin Mary, she is both innocent and sophisticated, a strangely languorous vessel of the Lord, whose fashionable lilac coif emits a greenish, phosphorescent glow...
...portrait is obviously a distinguished mannerist painting. It was bought by the St. Louis City Art Museum in 1943 as a Salviati (1510-63), then identified in 1951 as by Michele Tosini. But any number of other mid-16th century Italian painters have been mentioned as the artist, including Pontormo, Mirabello Cavalori, Jacopo del Conte and Vasari. At the moment, the museum displays it as attributed to Tosini, but no one is sure. Everyone agrees, however, that knowing who is portrayed in the picture would help. The painting's mood is mournful. It could be a posthumous portrait...
...pages. Braziller. $20. At that crucial intersection of art history, where the High Renaissance collapsed and reshaped itself into the Baroque, stands that accomplished but today little-valued style called "Mannerism." Painters like Mabuse, Cranach, Caravaggio, da Pontormo, and a hundred others across Europe were luxuriating in the mastery of technique. Their work was energetic, inventive, sensual, and edged with a fascination for the grotesque...
...church of the Jesuits in Venice. On a sheet of paper measuring 5¼ in. by 5¾ in., Leonardo da Vinci crammed almost two dozen men and half a dozen horses in two detailed, swirling battle scenes. And in a drawing measuring 11 in. by 16 in., Pontormo roughly sketched a single man on horseback that, though deliberately unfinished, bulges with expressive power. Tiepolo's luminous imagination shines in chiaroscuro in the violent Martyrdom of a Saint...