The cryptic knot: Jacopo Pontormo’s portrait of Cosimo il Vecchio

The ‘Portrait of Cosimo il Vecchio’, circa 1519, marked the first Medicean portrait commission of the rising young Florentine artist, Jacopo Pontormo. Over the course of his career, Pontormo tended to avoid the use of common attributes in portraiture, instead investing character and meaning in the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mary Hogan Camp
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Art History, University of Birmingham 2017-12-01
Series:Journal of Art Historiography
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Online Access:https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/camp.pdf