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BRONZINO, Agnolo

Featured Paintings in Detail

(2)

(Portraits)

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BRONZINO, AgnoloLaura Battiferri1555-60Oil on canvas, 83 x 60 cmPalazzo Vecchio, Florence

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BRONZINO, AgnoloLaura Battiferri (detail)1555-60Oil on canvas, 83 x 60 cmPalazzo Vecchio, Florence

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BRONZINO, AgnoloLaura Battiferri (detail)1555-60Oil on canvas, 83 x 60 cmPalazzo Vecchio, Florence

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BRONZINO, AgnoloLaura Battiferri (detail)1555-60Oil on canvas, 83 x 60 cmPalazzo Vecchio, Florence

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BRONZINO, AgnoloLaura Battiferri (detail)1555-60Oil on canvas, 83 x 60 cmPalazzo Vecchio, Florence

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BRONZINO, AgnoloPortrait of Lucrezia Panciatichic. 1540Oil on wood, 102 x 85 cmGalleria degli Uffizi, Florence

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BRONZINO, AgnoloPortrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi (detail)c. 1540Oil on wood, 102 x 85 cmGalleria degli Uffizi, Florence

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BRONZINO, AgnoloPortrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi (detail)c. 1540Oil on wood, 102 x 85 cmGalleria degli Uffizi, Florence

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BRONZINO, AgnoloPortrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi (detail)c. 1540Oil on wood, 102 x 85 cmGalleria degli Uffizi, Florence

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BRONZINO, AgnoloPortrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi (detail)c. 1540Oil on wood, 102 x 85 cmGalleria degli Uffizi, Florence

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BRONZINO, AgnoloPortrait of Bartolomeo Panciatichic. 1540Oil on wood, 104 x 84 cmGalleria degli Uffizi, Florence

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BRONZINO, AgnoloPortrait of Bartolomeo Panciatichi (detail)c. 1540Oil on wood, 104 x 84 cmGalleria degli Uffizi, Florence

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BRONZINO, AgnoloPortrait of Bartolomeo Panciatichi (detail)c. 1540Oil on wood, 104 x 84 cmGalleria degli Uffizi, Florence

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BRONZINO, AgnoloPortrait of Bartolomeo Panciatichi (detail)c. 1540Oil on wood, 104 x 84 cmGalleria degli Uffizi, Florence

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BRONZINO, AgnoloPortrait of Maria de' Medici1551Tempera on wood, 53 x 38 cmGalleria degli Uffizi, Florence

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BRONZINO, AgnoloPortrait of Maria de' Medici (detail)1551Tempera on wood, 53 x 38 cmGalleria degli Uffizi, Florence

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BRONZINO, AgnoloPortrait of Maria de' Medici (detail)1551Tempera on wood, 53 x 38 cmGalleria degli Uffizi, Florence

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BRONZINO, AgnoloPortrait of Maria de' Medici

First-born of Cosimo I de' Medici and Eleonora di Toledo, Maria was born in 1540 and died in 1557 at the age of seventeen. The picture is datable around 1551 as is mentioned in letter written in that year by Bronzino to Cosimo I. Once again the painter realized a portrait psychologically closed emphasizing just nobility, beauty and dignity of the person.

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BRONZINO, AgnoloLaura Battiferri

The sitter in this portrait is 16th-century Italian poet Laura Battiferri. Although Bronzino was primarily a painter, he also fancied himself a poet and often painted portraits of his literary friends and colleagues. Laura Battiferri lived in Florence and married the Florentine sculptor Bartolommeo Ammanati at the age of 27.

This portrait is considered by some to be the most fascinating female portrait of this time period. Battiferri's slender fingers mark a page in an open book of Petrarch's sonnets to Laura, with whom the sitter identifies. According to Petrarch, Laura is an "unapproachable, unattainable beauty... as chaste as the adored mistress of a troubadour, as modest and devout as a 'Stilnovismo Beatrice'". "Laura's personality

is even more elusive than her external appearance. She remains the incarnation of chaste and noble beauty."

This portrait is renowned for its break from convention, not only conventions Bronzino helped to establish, but other portraiture and gender norms of the time.

Profile: Battiferri is shown from the side, offering a clear look at her profile and long, almost hooked nose. Bronzino unnaturally draws out her forehead slightly to call attention to the size and shape of her nose.

Women, or men for that matter, were rarely, if ever, painted from the side during this time. Her head also appears slightly smaller than normal proportion would allow and her neck has been elongated, which is a trademark of the Mannerist style. Battiferri's head and position is also reminiscent of a coin profile.

Realistic presentation: Bronzino does, like in most of his portraits, take great care to mold Battiferri's face in three-dimensional-appearing contours. This was his trademark: ultra realistic style. Laura has a very focused look on her

face and her blank expression is also exemplary of many of Bronzino's portraits.Pose:

Laura Battiferri, a supporter of the Jesuitical Counter-Reformation, was reputed to have been a devout Catholic. Her great popularity at the Spanish court confirms this. The demure severity of her pose and dress may reflect the increased rigidity of Catholic ethical norms since the Council of Trent (1545-1563).

Color: Bronzino uses mundane colors, primarily white, gray, black and beige. In many of Bronzino's other portraits, he uses more dramatic tones like reds and blues.

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BRONZINO, AgnoloPortrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi

Lucrezia di Gismondo Pucci married in 1528 Bartolomeo Panciatichi, whose portrait was probably painted in pendant with this one about 1540. Bronzino describes her beautiful dress, enhancing her aristocratic dignity and her elegance: the long gold necklace the lady wears includes small plates where are legible the words "Sans fin amour dure", alluding to

love and faithfulness.

As is typical of Bronzino's art, the lady is dressed sumptuously in warm pink satin and dark velvet. A book is held between her aristocratic hands and her severe, pure face is utterly devoid of any naturalistic beauty. The artist makes this lady of a refined and cultured Florentine society an idealized symbol of chaste beauty (note the delicately, but also chastely

gathered hair) and high spirituality.

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BRONZINO, AgnoloPortrait of Bartolomeo Panciatichi

Official portraitist at the Medici court of Cosimo I, Bronzino painted also portraits of members of Florentine aristocracy or upper middle class, as Bartolomeo Panciatichi was. Born in 1507 and died in 1582, he held important public offices and lived in France as ambassador. In this picture he is around thirty years old, austere and proud, sitting before his family palace, whose coat of arm appears on the right. He also commissioned Bronzino to paint the portrait of his wife Lucrezia and the Sacra Famiglia con San Giovannino, both at Uffizi Gallery now.

Here the influence of Parmigianino may be obvious, in the elongated figure and the vigorous line which creates broken surfaces on the sleeves of Bartolomeo Panciatichi. The imposing, idealized structure behind the portrait refers to fifteenth-century styles, while the lucid surfaces of colour define once again all the ideal and intellectual splendour of this man

of the court: a work, therefore, totally in keeping with the taste and mentality of the Florentine painter.

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BRONZINO, Agnolo

Agnolo di Cosimo usually known as Bronzino was a Florentine Mannerist painter. His sobriquet, Bronzino, in all probability refers to his relatively dark skin.

He lived all his life in Florence, and from his late 30s was kept busy as the court painter of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. He was mainly a portraitist but also painted many religious subjects, and a few allegorical subjects, which include what is probably his best known work,

Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time, c. 1544–45, now in London. Many portraits of the Medicis exist in several versions with varying degrees of participation by Bronzino himself, as Cosimo was a

pioneer of the copied portrait sent as a diplomatic gift.

He trained with Pontormo, the leading Florentine painter of the first generation of Mannerism, and his style was greatly influenced by him, but his elegant and somewhat elongated figures always appear calm and somewhat reserved, lacking the agitation and emotion of those by his teacher.

They have often been found cold and artificial, and his reputation suffered from the general critical disfavour attached to Mannerism in the 19th and early 20th centuries.