This altarpiece marks the Italian artist coming into his own at the end of the Renaissance, its vision of Christ after his crucifixion rendered in an expressive, enigmatic style.

Collector Tom Hill defied British convention when he refused to sell the painting at a loss to London's National Gallery. Pontormo, Portrait of a Young Man in Red Cap (1530). Courtesy of the UK ...

Jacopo Pontormo is among the strangest artists to have emerged from the Florentine Renaissance, a painter for whom nothing is poised and direct and everything seems on edge. There’s no one like him — ...

"Metamorphosis and Malice" brings together three of the only known monochromatic paintings by Pontormo, a leading painter in sixteenth century Florence. In Metamorphosis and Malice, the Bowdoin ...

Temporary export ban placed on 16th-century Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap after its sale to overseas collector A temporary export ban has been placed on a 16th-century mannerist masterpiece, in ...

If you ever watched The Sopranos, in which a member of the New Jersey mafia agrees to see a therapist, you may have noticed the classical painting hanging behind the king-sized bed of Tony and Carmela ...

The craze for fictional embellishment of artists' lives gets an Italian Renaissance airing in "Pontormo -- A Heretical Love." Focusing on the last few months of the mystically intense painter, helmer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Among the rare-to-market works on offer during Master Drawings New York is a recently rediscovered double-sided drawing by Jacopo ...