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Pontormo Works Online
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Original works by Pontormo available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
The Virgin and Child with St Joseph and John the Baptist, 1521-27
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
6 works online by Pontormo
Kress Foundation Collection
(Look for the "Image" links for super high resolution scans)
Alessandro de' Medici, ca.1535
Cupid and Apollo
Pontormo at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Seated nude youth, looking to the left, right leg bent, 1519-21
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Page forward for several works on paper by Jacopo Carucci
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
The Adoration of the Shepherds
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Virgin and Child with Saints, red chalk drawing
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Drawings collection online
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
The Royal Collection, London, UK
The Virgin and Child, ca.1534-40
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut 
Madonna and Child (Madonna del Libro)
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
Apollo and Daphne, 1513
Casa Buonarroti, Florence
Noli me tangere (after Michelangelo), ca.1532
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Le Musée Ingres, Montauban, France (in French)
Click on the artist name, then on the artwork title to view the work
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)
(If the image is not clickable, click "Agrandir l'image" to enlarge the image)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Pontormo at the The British Museum, London, UK
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Virtual Uffizi
Leda and the Swan
Portrait of Cosimo the Elder
Virtual Uffizi
4 paintings online
Virtual Uffizi
3 paintings online
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Google Art Project
Portrait of Cosimo de' Medici the Elder (Uffizi Gallery, Florence)
Google Art Project
Supper at Emmaus (Uffizi Gallery, Florence)
Pontormo at The Art Renewal Center
Pontormo in the Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Aiwaz Panopticon
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database
Pontormo at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Jetset Image Galleries
Memory of the Netherlands Project
Great scans; use your mouse wheel to zoom in on the detail images
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
University of Leipzig, Germany
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Pontormo 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Apollo Magazine
Article: "Lesser Gods" (part 2)
Apollo Magazine
Article: "Lesser Gods" (part 1)
Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists
Biography of the artist. Detailed, but Vasari's anecdotes are sometimes inaccurate.
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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