Drawings of Pontormo (Master Draughtsman Series)
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The "Drawings of Pontormo" has 44 pages of drawings by the artist. A typical drawing is printed as 6 1/2 by 8 3/4 inches. The book says that it is a first edition, copyright 1986. The pages are 8 1/4 by 11 inches. (Some volumes in the "Master Draughtsman Series" have a larger format.) Each page contains one or two drawings. The drawings are almost all sketches and studies. The collection does contain a self portrait of Pontormo and some of the drawings called "studies" are very refined. The reproductions are monochrome. Each drawing is identified by a title, the media used to create it and the museum or collection that contains it. There is no information about the size of the original drawings. Most drawings are from the Uffizi Gallery and this gallery appears to put a distinctive stamp on them. If these stamps are all the same size, then the drawings in the book are printed to different scales.A two page introduction by Stephen Longstreet tells us that the artist's name was Jacopo Carucci. He was known as "Pontormo" after the village of his birth. We learn that he was in the school of art called "Mannerism" and that he often drew people's eyes as circular instead of oval. (Web research shows that the writer of the introduction was Chauncey Weiner. He took the pen name "Stephen Longstreet" after the original family name of a grandfather, which was "Weiner-Longstrasse".)There is a note (printed twice, for some reason) that says "Many thanks are due Mr. Harry Carmean for his invaluable research assistance. The Publishers. " In the Master Draughtsman Series, there is a book about the drawings of Harry Carmean, where we read that Harry is strongly influenced by Pontormo and also likes to draw figures that are "pinched" at the joints.I rate this book as three stars out of five to indicate that it gives an average amount of information about the drawings of Pontormo. It was relatively inexpensive, so I don't regret buying it.The pages in the book are not numbered. I don't know if scholars have standardized any set of titles or terminology for Pontormo's drawings. Using the titles given in the book, the drawings are as follows:Self PortraitPen and Bistre Wash over face, Black ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence ItalyPortrait Studies of a BoyRed Chalk, Torso in Black ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence Italy(printed on a half page)Boy in a TurbanRed ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence ItalyStudies for the Visormino AltarBlack Chalk, heightened with White on brown paperUffizi Gallery, Florence ItalyStudy for the DelugeBlack ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence ItalyStudy for The DepositionBlack Chalk, heightened with WhiteUffizi Gallery, Florence ItalyThree Seated NudesRed ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence ItalySleeping BoyRed Chalk, on faint Black ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence ItalyNude StudyRed ChalkBritish Museum, London, EnglandNude StudiesRed ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence ItalyStudies for the St. Michele AltarRed Chalk, Small Foot in InkUffizi Gallery, Florence ItalyStudy for Vertumus & PomonaRed Chalk over Black ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence Italy(printed on a half page, this is the drawing on the cover of the book)Studies for St. John the Baptist in the WildernessRed ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence Italy(printed on a half page)Studies for the Supper at EmmausRed ChalkBritish Museum, London, EnglandStudies for Joseph IIRed & Black ChalkEcole Des Beaux-Arts, Paris, FranceStudy for Joseph III, Three Male NudesRed ChalkMusee Des Beaux Arts, Lille, France(printed on a half page)Study for Joseph IIIRed ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence Italy(printed on a half page)Two Seated men, one with a Hand MirrorBlack crayon on gray-green paperStadelsche Kunstinstitute, Frankfort/Main, GermanyStudy for St. John the Baptist in the WildernessRed ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence Italy(printed on a half page)Studies for St. FrancisBlack Chalk sketches sideways, and on reverse in Red ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence Italy(printed on a half page)Portrait Study of a BoyRed ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence ItalyAn Old Man Holding a Small ChildBlack ChalkNational Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland(printed on a half page)A Young Man Holding a Small ChildBlack ChalkNational Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland(printed on a half page)Studies for the PietaRed Chalk, small studies in Black ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence ItalyNude StudyRed ChalkBritish Museum, London, EnglandNude StudyBlack Chalk, heightened with WhiteUffizi Gallery, Florence ItalyTwo Nude StudiesRed ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence ItalyThree Nude StudiesRed ChalkThe Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City, NYStudies for the St. Michele AltarBlack Chalk, heightened with White, hands in Red ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence ItalyStudy for Christ in Glory, with the Creation of EveBlack ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence ItalyStudies for the Careggi LoggiaRed Chalk, lightly washedKunsthalle, Hamburg, GermanyStudies for Vertumnus & PomonaBlack ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy(printed on a half page)Studies for the St. Michele AltarRed chalk, Small Foot in InkUffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy(printed on a half page)Study for the Xisdomini AltarBlack ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence, ItalySeated BoyRed ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence, ItalyStudy for Vertumnus & PomonaRed ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy(printed on a half page)Study for Vertumnus & PomonaRed ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy(printed on a half page, different than the previous drawing)Study for the Legend of the Ten Thousand MartyrsBlack ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence, ItalyNude StudyBlack, Red and White ChalkJ. Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City, NYStudy for the PietaRed ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence, ItalyStudy for a Nailing of the CrossRed ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy(printed on a half page)Studies for The BirthplaceRed Chalk, and Sketches in Black ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy(printed on a half page)Study for Vertumnus & PomonaRed Chalk, over faint Black ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence, ItalyStudy for the Israelites Drinking of the Water in the WildernessBlack ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy(printed on a half page)Reclining BoyRed ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy(printed on a half page)Study for Vertumnus and PomonaRed ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence, ItalyStudy for Vertumnu & PomonaBlack Chalk on bluish prepared paperUffizi Gallery, Florence, ItalySeated NudeBlack ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy(printed on a half page)Study for a Three GracesRed ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy(printed on a half page)Study for the Careggi LoggiaRed ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy(printed on a half page)Study for the Cargeggi LoggiaBlack ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy(printed on a half page)Study for a Three GracesRed ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence, ItalyStudy for a Venus and CupidRed ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence, ItalyStudies for The Resurrection of the DeadBlack ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy(printed on a half page)Nude Study for The San LorenzoBlack ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy(printed on a half page)Study for the Costello LoggiaBlack ChalkUffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
