Jcahpo pontormo biography of martin
Painter Jacopo Carucci, often referred to simply as Pontormo, was born on this day in in Pontorme near Empoli in Tuscany. Pontormo is considered to be the founder of the Mannerist style of painting in the later years of the Italian high renaissance, as he was capable of blending Michelangelo’s use of colour and monumental figures with the metallic rigidity of northern painters such as.