The life and works of Pontormo in an exclusive audiobook

The great Jacopo Carucci, better known as Pontormo (Pontorme, Empoli, 1494 - Florence, 1557), is the great artist who, along with Domenico Beccafumi and Rosso Fiorentino, is considered the initiator of Mannerism: a rupturing, anti-classical, restless painter, Pontormo also represents one of the very first cases of the cliché of the moody, bizarre, and estranged artist, and his eccentricity and the oddities of his character were not only described by biographers such as Vasari, but also emerge from his diary, which the painter kept during the last two years of his life, updating it meticulously (even, even, with what he had eaten for dinner).

Pontormo is now the protagonist of a dedicated audiobook, simply titled Pontormo and created by Finestre sull’Arte: it can be purchased from our online store, where an excerpt is also available to listen to now. The audiobook is part of the series The Sixteenth Century in Florence, ten artists and eleven volumes to explore the century that forever changed the face of art history, in the city where some of the most important events of that dense season unfolded. Among them, that of Pontormo: the book delves into the works (such as the celebrated Deposition, the frescoes of the Certosa del Galluzzo, the Uffizi paintings, the drawings for San Lorenzo and many others), the historical context, the artist’s style and the reasons why he took on such eccentric and totally opposite hues to the tradition and harmony of Renaissance painting.

The audiobook is on sale for only 4.50 euros, while the complete series is always available at a discounted price of 29.90 euros (instead of 49.50). With this product from Finestre Sull’Arte, it will be like taking a trip to Florence and its surroundings in the footsteps of one of the greatest artists in our art history. Below is the cover of the audiobook:

Jacopo Carucci, better known as Pontormo from the place where he was born near Empoli, was a unique painter: melancholic and solitary but also neurotic, restless, independent, Pontormo was one of the great geniuses of art history. A countercultural artist, capable of subverting the rules of the Renaissance, he proposed a highly original, ethereal, estranged, hallucinated painting, capable of reflecting all the eccentricities of his character, as well as the bearer of some of the most obvious characteristics of Mannerism, of which Pontormo was undoubtedly one of the greatest exponents. Trained in the workshop of Andrea del Sarto, he was in turn the master of some of the greatest artists of the next generation: another genius like Bronzino emerged from his workshop, along with other important painters, such as Jacopo Chimenti, a fellow citizen of Pontormo and for this reason nicknamed “l’Empoli.” Jacopo Carucci was a complicated, difficult and alienated artist, but also extremely modern, free and independent.

Image: Pontormo, Deposition, detail (1526-28; tempera on panel, 313 x 192 cm; Florence, Santa Felicita)

The life and works of Pontormo in an exclusive audiobook

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