Pontormo - Mature works after 1530: Encyclopedia II - Pontormo - LifeVasari relates how the orphaned boy, "young, melancholy and lonely," was shuttled around as a young apprentice:
"Jacopo had not been many months in Florence before Bernardo Vettori sent him to stay with Leonardo da Vinci, and then with Mariotto Albertinelli, Piero di Cosimo, and finally, in 1512, with Andrea del Sarto, with whom he did not remain long, for after he had done the cartoons for the arch of the Servites, it does not seem that Andrea bore him any good will, whatever ...
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