"Metamorphosis and Malice" brings together three of the only known monochromatic paintings by Pontormo, a leading painter in sixteenth century Florence. In Metamorphosis and Malice, the Bowdoin ...

London’s National Gallery has raised the £30 million ($37.35 million) needed to purchase Jacopo Pontormo’s Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap from American buyer J. Tomilson Hill, the billionaire ...

Going to The Getty Museum to see the exhibition of drawings and paintings by 16 th - century Italian master Pontormo, I was prepared to pay homage to this great Florentine painter. What I was not ...

Jacopo da Pontormo, “Visitation” (1528–1529), oil on panel, 79 1/2 × 61 7/16 inches, Carmignano, Pieve di San Michele Arcangelo (image courtesy the Morgan Library & Museum) Jacopo da Pontormo was the ...

However, a new look at the permanent collection is a shallow PC rant about Western ‘imperialism.’ I was on Mount Desert Island for a week on vacation but, going up and back, I visited favorite museums ...

Due in large part to the boost his ­reputation received from influential art historian Giorgio Vasari, Michelangelo is one of the best-known figures of Western civilisation. Vasari, a friend to ...

British culture minister Ed Vaizey has imposed a temporary export ban on a 16th century portrait by the Florentine master Jacopo Pontormo and launched an effort to find a UK buyer for the masterpiece.

Temporary export ban placed on 16th-century Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap after its sale to overseas collector A temporary export ban has been placed on a 16th-century mannerist masterpiece, in ...

Jacopo Pontormo is among the strangest artists to have emerged from the Florentine Renaissance, a painter for whom nothing is poised and direct and everything seems on edge. There’s no one like him — ...

Jacopo Pontormo’s Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap could soon belong to the National Gallery after a £19m government grant – but only if another £11m can be found. It’s a painting full of romance and ...

In the age of blockbuster art exhibitions, a small show sometimes makes just as big an impression as a large one. That's what happened to critic Lloyd Schwartz on a recent trip to New York. This is ...