Grey Matters
Lewisburg, PA, Bucknell University, Samek Art Gallery, Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, inv. no. 1961.K.1618
Jacopo Carrucci, known as Pontormo (Pontormo 1494–1557 Florence)
Apollo and Cupid, 1513
oil on canvas
24 x 18 7/8 inches
61 x 47.3 cm
Cook Collection, Richmond, Surrey
Contini Bonacossi, Florence
Kress Collection, by 1949
Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation to Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 1961
Frankfurt, Städel Museum, Maniera: Pontormo, Bronzino and Medici Florence, 24 February – 5 June 2016
Bernard Berenson, The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance, New York/London, 1909, p. 109.
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Frederick Mortimer Clapp, Jacopo Carucci da Pontormo. His Life and Work, New Haven/London/Oxford, 1916, pp. 13, 253f.
John Shearman, ‘Pontormo and Andrea del Sarto, 1513’, The Burlington Magazine, no. 104, 1962, pp. 478-483.
Kurt W. Forster, Pontormo. Monographie mit Kritischem Katalog, Munich, 1966, p. 149.
Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, vol. III, 1973, p. 10, nos. K1618, 1619.
Luciano Berti, L’opera completa del Pontormo, Milan, 1973, pp. 87f., nos. 4, 5.
Mario Scalini, ‘Un’altra addenda per Pontormo’, Antichità viva 20, 1981, pp. 8-11.
Anthony M. Cummings, The Politicized Muse: Music for Medici Festivals, 1512-1537, Princeton, 1992, pp. 15-35.
Anna Forlani Tempesti/ Alessandra Giovanetti, Pontormo, Florence, 1994, pp. 99-103, no. 2.
Philippe Costamagna, Pontormo. Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, Milan/Paris, 1994, pp. 104-106, no. 4.
Dorothea Scholl, Von den “Grottesken” sum Grotesken. Die Konstituierung einer Poetik des Grotesken in der italienischen Renaissance,Münster, 2004, pp. 406-410.
Bastian Eclercy, Maniera: Pontormo, Bronzino and Medici Florence, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, 2016, exh. cat. pp. 56-7, nos. 7 and 8.