Pontormo Was Born 532 Years Ago Today. His Twisted Nudes Invented Mannerism — and Changed the Body in Art Forever.
Pontormo Was Born 532 Years Ago Today. His Twisted Nudes Invented Mannerism — and Changed the Body in Art Forever. […]
Mannerism
Francesco Primaticcio Was Born Today, 522 Years Ago. He Made the Nude the Language of French Power.
The Man Who Brought the Italian Nude to France On April 30, 1504, Francesco Primaticcio was born in Bologna. He
Died Today in Art History: El Greco and the Ecstatic Nude (April 7, 1614)
On April 7, 1614, Domenikos Theotokopoulos — the painter the world knows as El Greco — died in Toledo, Spain.