Visitation of Carmignano

The Carmignano Visitation is a c.1528-1530 oil on panel painting of the Visitation by Pontormo, now in the propositura dei Santi Michele e Francesco in Carmignano, west of Florence, Italy.

Unmentioned in Vasari's first version of the Lives of the Artists, Pontormo was included with named paintings in the second edition, but the list of masterpieces did not include this one, possibly because Vasari had never seen it. The painting was first documented in Giovanni Cinelli Calvoli's 1677 book Le bellezze della città di Firenze. Cinelli wrote that in the house of Senator Andrea Pitti there is 'a smaller modello of the Visitation of Pontormo, with extremely fine and meticulously painted drapery', and he believes the larger original is in the villa of the Pinadoria family in Camignano. In 1740 the painting was installed in its present location, somewhat unhappily with a large white with gold tri…

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