Pontormo

Pontormo unsettles: acidic pinks and greens, weightless elongated figures, and compressed, ambiguous space. Faces are anxious and inward, the harmony deliberately strained.

Pontormo (1494–1557) was a painter from Italy, associated with Mannerism.

A late-Renaissance style of elongated figures, complex spiralling poses, and unnatural colour, prizing elegance and tension over calm harmony. Mannerism →