In a city filled with wondrous works of art from every conceivable time period and genre, and from hundreds of nations and cultures, which one is the most beautiful of all? This fall in New York City, the art critics and experts have reached an uncommonly uniform consensus. The most beautiful painting in New York City – at least for another few weeks – is Visitation, an oil painting by the Italian Mannerist Jacopo da Pontormo (1494–1556). 

You can see it for yourself from now until January 6, 2019 at the Morgan Library & Museum. Pontormo: Miraculous Encounters at the Morgan Library in New York has been a buzzy sensation in New York this fall, despite the fact that it consists of only two completed works. The exhibit is housed in an intimate enclosed gallery on the ground floor of the Morgan. It’s a space not much bigger than the office of a mid-level manager at a large corporation.