Martin Gayford

The brilliant neurotics of the late Renaissance

Martin Gayford catches an exhibition of the peculiar but brilliant work of Pontormo and Rosso Fiorentino at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence

‘Portrait of a Bishop’, c.1541–2, by Jacopo Carrucci, known as Pontormo [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy]

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