Pontormo

May 31, 2020
Prolific Florentine painter Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori (1535–1607) was born on May 31, 1535.

November 23, 2017
On This Day (23 November) in 1572, Agnolo Bronzino Died in Florence.

September 7, 2017
Pontormo’s Restored Deposition at Palazzo Strozzi (21/09/17-21/01/2018)

February 18, 2017
Pontormo Painting Problems Persist An impressive campaign by London’s National Gallery to raise funds to keep a prominent Pontormo portrait in England seems for naught as it appears the American purchaser of the painting will not accept their matched payment.

January 14, 2017
Artist Francesco di Cristofano, better known as Franciabigio, died on 14 January, 1525, in his hometown of Florence at age 41.

November 17, 2015
A model of maniera : 17 November marks the birthday of Agnolo di Cosimo, better known as Bronzino, in 1503.

October 18, 2015
October 18 is the Feast day of St. Luke , gospel writer and patron saint of artists, owing to the Christian tradition that he painted a portrait of the Virgin Mary and Christ Child.

May 26, 2015
Jacopo da Pontormo was born in Pontormo, near Empoli, on 26 May 1494.

December 31, 2014
Jacopo da Pontormo died on New Year’s Eve in 1556 in Florence, where he had been the leading painter of his day.

March 16, 2014
An exhibition on two of the leading figures of Mannerism, Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino , is on view @palazzostrozzi through 20 July.