Work Record
Class [controlled]: • paintings  • European art
*Work Type [link]: • painting
*Title: Portrait of a Halberdier (Francesco Guardi?)  Title Type: repository
Title: Portrait of Cosimo I de'Medici  Title Type: former
*Creator Display: Pontormo (Italian, 1494-1557)
*Role [link]: painter  [link]: Pontormo
*Creation Date: ca. 1528-1530  [controlled]: • Earliest: 1523  • Latest: 1535
*Subject [links]:  • portrait  • Francesco Guardi (Italian nobleman, born 1514)  • halberdier  • nobleman
Style [link]: Mannerist
Culture [link]: Italian
*Current Location [link]: J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, California, USA)  • ID: 89.PA.49
*Measurements: 123 x 161 cm (36 1/4 x 28 3/8 inches)
[controlled]: • Value: 123 Unit: cm Type: height  |  • Value: 161 Unit: cm Type: width
*Materials and Techniques:  oil or oil and tempera on panel transferred to canvas
Material [links]: • oil paint  • tempera  • panel (wood)  • canvas  Technique [links]: • painting
Description: Pontormo's elongated, oval forms and refined play of color is prototypical of Mannerist portraiture.
Description Sources [link]: J. Paul Getty Museum. Handbook of the Collections. 6th edition. Los Angeles: Christopher Hudson, 2001.  Page: 99
• J. Paul Getty Museum online. www.getty.edu Page: accessed 15 October 2006

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