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| | PONTORMO, Jacopo da, (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | He was initially influenced by the calm, balanced High Renaissance styles of Piero di Cosimo and Leonardo da Vinci and of Andrea del Sarto, whom he assisted. |
 | | From 1518 on, Pontormo did much work for the Medici, including frescoes for their villa at Poggio and, later, their family church, San Lorenzo. |
 | | About 1518 he developed a new Mannerist style, partly inspired by Michelangelo and Albrecht Dürer, marked by elongated forms, heightened emotion, and tension between figures and space. |
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