Pontormo provides bright spark in a grey world
This recently discovered grisaille painting of Adam and Eve by the Florentine Mannerist artist Jacopo Carucci (1494-1557), known as Pontormo, is the centrepiece of a new exhibition of monochromatic works at New York gallery Nicholas Hall.
A prime example of the artist’s private work, the small painting is noted for its unusual grisaill…