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The Carmignano Visitation is a c.1528-1530 oil on panel painting of the Visitation by Pontormo, now in the propositura dei Santi Michele e Francesco in Carmignano, Italy. Detail of the two people in the background identified by art historian Adriano Marinazzo as St. Joseph and Zechariah.
Jan 8, 2024 · Learn about Pontormo's masterpiece of Renaissance art, painted between 1528 and 1529, that depicts the encounter between Mary and Elizabeth. Discover how it challenges the conventions of perspective, composition and colour, and how it influenced later artists.
Feb 7, 2019 · Jacopo Pontormo’s oil on wood altarpiece, “The Visitation,” circa 1528-29, is visiting the J. Paul Getty Museum on its first journey outside Italy.
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- Art Critic
Visitation, 1528–29, Church of San Francesco e Michele, Carmignano. Pontormo painted in and around Florence, often supported by Medici patronage. A foray to Rome, largely to see Michelangelo 's work, influenced his later style. Haunted faces and elongated bodies are characteristic of his work.
Featuring one of Jacopo da Pontormo’s most renowned works, the Visitation, this exhibition presents this innovative altarpiece along with two exceptional portraits and preparatory drawings that reveal his creative process.
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.
Jacopo Pontormo painted the Visitation (1514–16) for the Church of the Annunciation in Florence, Italy, where the fresco remains. The scene depicts the encounter between Mary and Elizabeth (Luke 1:39–45). Elizabeth is the first person to confess that Jesus, even in the womb, is “my Lord” (1:43).
