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PONTORMO: MIRACULOUS ENCOUNTERS
Pontormo's newly restored Visitation to travel to the U.S. for the first time as a focus of new exhibition at the Morgan
September 7, 2018 through January 6, 2019
Jacopo da Pontormo (1494–1556), Visitation, 1528–1529, oil on panel, Pieve dei Santi Michele e Francesco, Carmignano. Photography by Antonio Quattrone.
New York, NY, August 10, 2018 — Jacopo da Pontormo (1494–1557) was one of the most extraordinary painters and draftsmen of sixteenth-century Florence. By the end of the 1520s, he had created one of his most moving and groundbreaking works, the Visitation. For the first time, this masterpiece of Mannerist art is traveling to the United States as the focus of the exhibition Pontormo: Miraculous Encounters.
Organized in collaboration with the Gallerie degli Uffizi in Florence and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the exhibition places the altarpiece in the context of a selection of other exceptional works by the artist and offers new insights into Pontormo’s creative process and the Visitation’s iconography, origin, interpretation and patronage.
Until recently, the altarpiece was only accessible by visiting the church. Its restoration has created the unprecedented opportunity for the work to travel to the U.S and brought to light important discoveries about the artist’s technique.
“Pontormo’s work as a painter of devotional images and his inventions as a portraitist solidified his status as one of the greatest painters active in Florence during the sixteenth century,” said director Colin B. Bailey. “I am delighted that visitors to the Morgan will soon have the extraordinary opportunity to experience this newly restored masterwork and am grateful to our collaborators at the Getty and the Uffizi as well as to the Pieve dei Santi Michele e Francesco for making this exhibition possible.”
