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 |