Miraculous encounters
Subtitle: Pontormo from drawing to painting
By: edited by Bruce Edelstein, Davide Gasparotto ; with contributions by Giada Damen, Cristina Gnoni Mavarelli, Michele Grasso, Elizabeth Pilliod, Daniele Rossi, Raimondo Sassi
Contributors: J. Paul Getty Museum; Pierpont Morgan Library
Publisher: The J. Paul Getty Museum
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781606065891
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Exhibitions; Panel painting; Conservation and restoration; Mannerism (Art); Visitation (Pontormo, Jacopo da)
Description: "Jacopo Carucci, known as Pontormo (1494-1557), was the leading painter in mid-sixteenth-century Florence and one of the most original and extraordinary Mannerist artists. His extremely personal style was much influenced by Michelangelo, though he also drew from northern art, especially the work of Albrecht Dürer. This catalogue brings together a small but important group of preparatory drawings and finished paintings that center on Pontormo's great masterpiece, The Visitation, one of the most moving and mesmerizing works by the artist. The Visitation represents the intense moment of encounter between the Virgin Mary and her cousin Elizabeth, who reveal to each other that both are pregnant. The painting is presented--for the first time--along with its highly finished preparatory drawing, which is squared for transfer to the larger surface of the panel. The combination of rigorous research and gorgeous reproductions reveals the painter's creative process as never before. Other acclaimed paintings, including Portrait of a Halberdier and Portrait of Carlo Neroni, will also be shown alongside their preparatory drawings. Readers will encounter Pontormo both as a religious painter and a painter of portraits in this original and nuanced account of the celebrated artist." -- Publisher's description
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York, from September 7, 2018 to January 6, 2019, and at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, from February 5 to April 28, 2019.

Published simultaneously in Italian as Incontri miracolosi: Pontormo dal disegno alla pittura and in English outside North America by Le Gallerie degli Uffizi and Giunti Editore S.p.A.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-153) and index.
Table of contents: title: Essays. Miraculous encounters: Pontormo from drawing to painting / Bruce Edelstein; title: Pontormo's Visitation in the Pieve dei Santi Michele e Francesco at Carmignano : a conservation history / Cristina Gnoni Mavarelli; title: Restoring the Carmignano Visitation: techniques and discoveries / Daniele Rossi; title: Catalogue. Vasari, Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, et architettori / Elizabeth Pilliod; title: Pontormo, Self-Portrait / Raimondo Sassi; title: Pontormo, Visitation / Bruce Edelstein; title: Pontormo, Study for the visitation / Michele Grasso; title: Dürer, Four naked women / Giada Damen; title: Pontormo, Portrait of Halberdier (Francesco Guardi?) / David Gasparotto; title: Pontormo, Study for the Halberdier / Raimondo Sassi; title: Bronzino, Pygmalion / Elizabeth Pilliod; title: Pontormo, Portrait of a young man in a red cape (Carlo Neroni?) / Giada Damen and David Gasparotto; title: Bronzino, Martyrdom of Saint Acacius and the ten thousand / Giada Damen; title: Pontormo, Studies for a portrait of an armed youth / Michele Grasso.