Deposition from the Cross
Weightless figures in pink and blue, with no cross or landscape: early Mannerism's benchmark

- Author
- Jacopo Pontormo
- Style
- Mannerism — Renaissance harmony deliberately unbalanced: stretched bodies, cold colour, crowded space
- Century
- 16th century
Made around the same time (±30 years)
- 1508–1512 Sistine Chapel ceiling — Michelangelo · Italian Renaissance · Vatican, Rome
- c. 1503–1519 Mona Lisa — Leonardo da Vinci · Italian Renaissance · Florence
- 1501–1504 David — Michelangelo · Italian Renaissance · Florence
- 1555–1561 Saint Basil's Cathedral — Barma and Postnik · Tented Churches · Moscow, Red Square
- c. 1524–1540 Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp · Persian miniature · Tabriz
- c. 1524–1534 Palazzo del Te — Giulio Romano · Mannerism · Mantua
- c. 1526–1530 Baburnama — Babur · Agra
- c. 1522 The Court of Gayumars — Sultan Muhammad · Persian miniature · Tabriz