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The Visitation — Pontormo
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The Visitation

Pontormo (Italian, 1494–1557)
Date c. 1525–29
Collection Pieve di San Michele Arcangelo, Carmignano
Subject Visitation
Season Advent
Master 4,332 px
License Public domain (photo CC BY-SA 4.0)
Attribution Parish of San Michele Arcangelo, Carmignano (Prato) — no institutional object page; tombstone from the J. Paul Getty Museum exhibition checklist (Pontormo: Miraculous Encounters)

The original, as its museum records it

Artist Pontormo, Italian (Florentine), 1494 - 1557
Date About 1525
Medium Oil on wood panel
Dimensions Unframed: 202 × 156 cm (79 1/2 × 61 3/8 in.)
Holding Parish of San Michele Arcangelo, Carmignano (Prato) — no institutional object page; tombstone from the J. Paul Getty Museum exhibition checklist (Pontormo: Miraculous Encounters)
Accession not recorded

Every line above is reproduced from the holding institution’s own catalogue entry, which is linked. Where their title, date or attribution differs from ours, theirs is the one printed here.

The file this print is made from

Source Jacopo pontormo, visitazione, 1528-1529 circa (carmignano, ss. michele e francesco) 01.jpg
Master 4,332 px on the long edge
Rights The painting is in the public domain; the photograph is credited below

Photograph: Francesco Bini, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

Sizes

sheet 8×10 in · image 7.7×10 in · archival margin · 433 dpi
sheet 11×14 in · image 10.7×14 in · archival margin · 309 dpi
sheet 18×24 in · image 18×23.5 in · archival margin · 184 dpi

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About this painting

Behind the embrace, two women face straight out and do not move. The Web Gallery of Art notes their age difference and their resemblance to the protagonists, and reads the two maidservants as the doubles of Mary and Elizabeth.

The Getty places the altarpiece amid Florence's political upheaval at the end of the 1520s. Arcs of arms and fabric bind the two saints, their enlarged bodies filling the panel against a gloomy town.

So the picture holds each woman twice: once in profile, exchanging looks of affection with her kinswoman, and once frontal, eyes fixed on something outside the scene.

Sources: Web Gallery of Art, 'Visitation (after restoration)' (Pontormo), read 2026-09-24 · J. Paul Getty Museum, 'Pontormo: Miraculous Encounters' exhibition page, read 2026-09-24 · J. Paul Getty Museum, Pontormo exhibition checklist (PDF), read 2026-09-24

And it came to pass that when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the infant leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost.

Luke 1:41 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)

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Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 4,332 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.