London’s National Gallery is looking to close the deal on a £30 million ($36.5 million) Jacopo Pontormo canvas, but it only has until October 22 to do so. The 1530 portrait of a young man was sold to ...

Collector Tom Hill defied British convention when he refused to sell the painting at a loss to London's National Gallery. Pontormo, Portrait of a Young Man in Red Cap (1530). Courtesy of the UK ...

The Passion of Jesus ranks among the most common themes in Western art, painted or sculpted by artists too numerous to count, with many striving to create artworks both emotionally stirring and ...

Jacopo Pontormo is among the strangest artists to have emerged from the Florentine Renaissance, a painter for whom nothing is poised and direct and everything seems on edge. There’s no one like him — ...

"Metamorphosis and Malice" brings together three of the only known monochromatic paintings by Pontormo, a leading painter in sixteenth century Florence. In Metamorphosis and Malice, the Bowdoin ...

It can be tempting to respond to people’s harmful actions by denying their identity as Christians. We should resist this temptation. Since 1900, the Christian Century has published reporting, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Among the rare-to-market works on offer during Master Drawings New York is a recently rediscovered double-sided drawing by Jacopo ...

Temporary export ban placed on 16th-century Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap after its sale to overseas collector A temporary export ban has been placed on a 16th-century mannerist masterpiece, in ...

The craze for fictional embellishment of artists' lives gets an Italian Renaissance airing in "Pontormo -- A Heretical Love." Focusing on the last few months of the mystically intense painter, helmer ...