Sunday, April 10, 2022

Agnolo di Cosimo (Bronzino) - 1503-1572 - Portraits

Agnolo Bronzino
Portrait of Ugolino Martelli
ca. 1537-38
oil on panel
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Agnolo Bronzino
Portrait of Ugolino Martelli (detail)
ca. 1537-38
oil on panel
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Agnolo Bronzino
Portrait of Laura Battiferri
ca. 1550-55
oil on panel
Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

Agnolo Bronzino
Portrait of Laura Battiferri
(holding Petrarch manuscript alluding to her given name)
ca. 1550-55
oil on panel
Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

Agnolo Bronzino
Portrait of a Young Man
ca. 1550-55
oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Agnolo Bronzino
Portrait of a Young Man (detail)
ca. 1550-55
oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Agnolo Bronzino
Portrait of Andrea Doria
in the guise of Neptune

ca. 1531-33
oil on canvas
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Agnolo Bronzino
Portrait of Stefano Colonna
1546
tempera on panel
Palazzo Barberini, Rome

Agnolo Bronzino
Portrait of Eleonora da Toledo
1543
oil on panel
Národní Galerie, Prague

Agnolo Bronzino
Portrait of Eleonora da Toledo
and her son Giovanni de' Medici

1544-45
oil on panel
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Agnolo Bronzino
Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici
ca. 1550
oil on panel
Galleria Sabauda, Turin

Agnolo Bronzino
Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici in Armour
ca. 1545
oil on panel
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Agnolo Bronzino
Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici
in the guise of Orpheus

ca. 1537-39
oil on panel
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Agnolo Bronzino
Portrait of a Young Man
ca. 1530-40
oil on panel
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Agnolo Bronzino
Portrait of Bianca de' Medici
ca. 1545
oil on panel
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

"Agnolo di Cosimo (called Bronzino) was the leading painter of mid-16th century Florence.  According to Vasari he is the boy on the steps in his teacher Pontormo's Joseph with Jacob in Egypt.  Influenced, like many other artists of his generation, by Michelangelo, Bronzino is classed as a Mannerist.  He is chiefly famous for his portraits, especially those of Cosimo de' Medici, first Duke of Florence, his wife Eleonora da Toledo, their children and members of their court."

– from curator's notes at the National Gallery, London

Pontormo
Joseph with Jacob in Egypt
(detail with "boy on the steps") 
1515-18
oil on panel
National Gallery, London