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

Lunette fresco (detail)

1519-21
Fresco
Villa Medici, Poggio a Caiano

Around the oculus of the window are four naked putti: the lower ones are holding the two ends of a festoon of leaves and fruits, while the two above are sitting on large trunks, from which slender laurel branches grow outwards, holding two standards aloft.