Download The Visitation Painting Pontormo Gif. My daily art display today is pontormo's painting the visitation which he completed in 1528 and now adorns the altar of a side chapel in a small church called the pieve di san michele in carmignano, a town west of florence. The setting for this painting is the visitation of the virgin mary on her.

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The visitation by pontormo is located in the parish church of san michele e san francesco in carmignano and depicts mary, pregnant with jesus, during her visit to her cousin elizabeth, pregnant with john the baptist. Colours used in painting for an idea of the pigments used by jacopo pontormo in his colour painting, see the visitation in the church of s. The setting for this painting is the visitation of the virgin mary on her.

With his extravagant and refined style, pontormo shaped the mannerist movement that dominated italian painting between 1520 and 1580.

Pontormo painted only in and around florence, supported by medici patronage. The painting, which is unframed, creates a spellbinding encounter for the visitor. A foray to rome, largely to see michelangelo's work, influenced his later style. Pontormo painted only in and around florence, supported by medici patronage.