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feeling, not
a gallery.
Choose a mood and the room itself answers — the light cools or warms, the air changes pace, and only the works that carry that feeling step forward from the dark. Everything else recedes into shadow.
Leandro Bassano
Jacopo da Pontormo: A Revolutionary of Florentine Art Jacopo Carucci, better known as Jacopo Pontormo, remains a figure of profound and often perplexing fascination in the history of art. Born in 1494 in the small Tuscan town of Pontorme near Empoli, he wasn’t destined for a conventional artistic upbringing. Orphaned at a young age and shuttled between various Florentine workshops – first with Leonardo da Vinci, then with Mariotto Albe
rtinelli and Piero di Cosimo, before finally finding a home with Andrea del Sarto – his early training was characterized by the rigorous discipline of the High Renaissance. Yet, despite absorbing the principles of perspective, anatomy, and classical composition from these esteemed masters, Pontormo ultimately forged a path entirely his own, becoming a pivotal figure in the transition to Mannerism and profoundly influencing generations…