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Mannerism: An artistic style of the late 16th century characterized by distortion of elements such as scale and perspective - The Artist: Jacopo Pontormo.


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Mannerism: An artistic style of the late 16th century characterized by distortion of elements such as scale and perspective - The Artist: Jacopo Pontormo.

... Mannerism: An artistic style of the late 16th century characterized by distortion of elements such as scale and perspective. The Artist: Jacopo Pontormo Biography: His Beginning: Jacopo Pontormo was born in Pontormo, 1494 and died in Firenze, 1557. Pontormo was the son of a painter named Bartolommeo Carrucci. He was apprenticed to various artists that include Leonardo da Vinci. At the age of 18 he entered the workshop of Andrea Del Sarto. Jacopo Pontormo was talented and was even praised by Michelangelo. His Style of Work: At around 1515, he had already created a unique style in his works. His works were full of restless movement and disconcertingly irrational effects of scale and space. One of his works, an altarpiece for the Church of San Michele Visdomini, Florence, reflects an emotionalism, a departure from the balance and tranquility of the Renaissance. His Works: Pontormo was primarily a religious painter, but he

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