Beep beep. It's the birthday of Pontormo (1494-1557), the greatest of the Mannerists. With Pontormo, the Renaissance suddenly became crazily inventive. Opal fruit colours. Twisting poses. Weird subjects. He rewrote the book. If that isn't worth celebrating, what is?!

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Rosso Fiorentino was born in 1494! With his friend Jacopo Pontormo, also a pupil of the renowned Renaissance master Andrea del Sarto, Rosso Fiorentino pioneered Mannerism in Florentine painting. https://t.co/fMufdcUIxR

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