PONTORMO, Jacopo
(b. 1494, Pontormo, d. 1557, Firenze)

Visitation (detail)

1514-16
Fresco
Santissima Annunziata, Florence

In their monumentality, the figures recall the models of Fra Bartolomeo, but diverge from the latter in their slightly charged, restless expressions, like that of the woman sitting in the foreground looking at something outside the scene.