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PONTORMO, Jacopo: Portrait of an Engraver of Semi-Precious Stones

🖼 Portrait of an Engraver of Semi-Precious Stones, 1517-18
Oil on wood
70 × 53 cm
Paris, France

Soft brushwork captures an artisan's penetrating gaze against warm ochre tones, his hands delicately positioned as if mid-work. Pontormo's psychological intensity elevates portraiture beyond likeness, revealing the intellectual dignity of a craftsman during the Renaissance humanist movement.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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