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Some dishes hark back to the 16thcentury, such as Pontormo, a tossed salad of soft scrambled eggs, pancetta and greens that gets its name from Florentine Renaissance painter Jacopo Pontormo.
Like an Extra-Virgin: A Chianti Classic, Tourists Included 2001
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Some dishes hark back to the 16thcentury, such as Pontormo, a tossed salad of soft scrambled eggs, pancetta and greens that gets its name from Florentine Renaissance painter Jacopo Pontormo.
Like an Extra-Virgin: A Chianti Classic, Tourists Included 2001
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It's never clear if his oddness is willed and sophisticated, as a mannerist device (he was a Florentine colleague of Pontormo and Bronzino) or is the product of someone trained in old-fashioned styles (he studied with Perugino) trying, and failing, to come completely up-to-date.
Gopnik's Daily Pic: Bacchiacca in Baltimore Blake Gopnik 2010
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He was apprenticed to a leading Florentine painter, Jacopo da Pontormo, and worked with him on frescoes and panel paintings.
Bronzino's Medici portraits – review James Hall 2010
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There's little of the flightiness of Pontormo, where everything aspires to the condition of a flag, flame or cloud.
Bronzino's Medici portraits – review James Hall 2010
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In the catalog entry, she speaks cryptically about their "explicit references" to Pontormo and Matisse, allusions that baffled me.
Too Restless for the Rules Richard B. Woodward 2011
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Another swipe of the finger on the touch screen turns what looks like black background into a portrait of the artist's master, Pontormo.
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During the Renaissance, the Church of Santa Felicita was decorated with artworks from greats like Neri di Bicci, and The Deposition of the Cross by Pontormo was considered one of the most significant works of the early Mannerist style.
The Poet Prince KATHLEEN MCGOWAN 2010
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The Pontormo artwork covered the chapel designed by the great Brunelleschi, the genius responsible for the majestic and unequaled Duomo.
The Poet Prince KATHLEEN MCGOWAN 2010
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Appropriately, the exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi opens with four portraits ascribed alternatively to Bronzino, Pontormo, or both.
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