ence, in the workshops of \b \cf4 \ATXht1199 Leonardo\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 , Piero di Cosimo, Mariotto Albertinelli and Andrea del Sarto. With a cantankerous temperament verging, according to contemporary accounts, on misanthropy, Pontormo was, along with Ros
so Fiorentino and Domenico Beccafumi, one of the leading representatives of early Tuscan Mannerism. In fact the way that his painting grafted formal elements derived from Michelangelo (contraposition, plasticism, iridescent colors) and Dⁿrer (geometric s
chematization, haunted expressions) onto a classical language drawn from M. Albertinelli and Andrea del Sarto was to strain the rules of Renaissance art to the breaking point.