SurfWax News Index  |  Track News  |  Save/Exchange Information |  About Us News and Articles on Pontormo Goodnight Siena  Oct 24, 2007 His paintings are tumultuously creative and varied, from a realistic depiction of a crowd listening to a sermon, whose ambiguous faces and figures almost look like the work of some gifted 18th- or 19th-century romantic, to religious and classical scenes with an electrically bright palette reminiscent of the Florentine mannerist Pontormo ... Why isn't the National Gallery putting on shows of Pontormo, Signorelli, Donatello, or Duccio or Simone Martini, illuminating the high road of art rather... (Guardian Unlimited) Immodest proposals  Oct 13, 2007 The male nudes of Pontormo and Caravaggio, to name but two, are unforgettably individual. Only when the model's features are set in stone, as in the case of Bronzino's picture of a nude Cosimo de' Medici as Orpheus, do we realise that the picture is a portrait. (Guardian Unlimited) 'Dürer and Italy': A master's impact on Renaissance art  May 19, 2007 Andrea del Sarto, Jacopo Pontormo, Domenico Beccafumi and Agnolo Bronzino were but some of the Tuscans who owed a clear debt to the Nuremberger. 1. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts) Back to Art News [ Terms Of Use | Privacy | About ] ©1998-2008 SurfWax, Inc. All rights reserved. Patents pending. Copyright SurfWax, Inc. 2008