Agnolo di Cosimo (; 17 November 150323 November 1572), usually known as Bronzino ( it, Il Bronzino ) or Agnolo Bronzino, was an

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Mannerist Mannerism, which may also be known as Late Renaissance, is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, ...

painter from

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. His

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, ''Bronzino'', may refer to his relatively dark skin or reddish hair. 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 Cosimo I de' Medici (12 June 1519 – 21 April 1574) was the second Duke of Florence from 1537 until 1569, when he became the first Grand Duke of Tuscany, a title he held until his death. Life Rise to power Cosimo was born in Florence on 12 ...

. 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 ''Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time'' (also called ''An Allegory of Venus and Cupid'' and ''A Triumph of Venus'') is an allegorical painting of about 1545 by the Florentine painter Agnolo Bronzino. It is now in the National Gallery, London. Scholars d ...

'', 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 Jacopo Carucci (May 24, 1494 – January 2, 1557), usually known as ''Jacopo da Pontormo'', ''Jacopo Pontormo'', or simply Pontormo, was an Italian Mannerism, Mannerist painter and portraitist from the Florentine School. His work represents a pr ...

, 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. Recent decades have been more appreciative of his art.

Life

Bronzino was born in

, the son of a butcher. According to his contemporary

Vasari Giorgio Vasari (, also , ; 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance Master, who worked as a painter, architect, engineer, writer, and historian, who is best known for his work ''The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculpt ...

, Bronzino was a pupil first of

Raffaellino del Garbo Raffaellino del Garbo (1466 – 1527) was a Florentine painter of the early Renaissance. Biography His real name was Raffaello di Bartolomeo dei Carli. He was also known as Raffaello Capponi after his adoptive family. The appellation "del Garb ...

, and then of

, to whom he was apprenticed at 14. Pontormo is thought to have introduced a

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of Bronzino as a child (seated on a step) into one of his series on '' Joseph in Egypt'' now in the

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. Pontormo exercised a dominant influence on Bronzino's developing

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, and the two were to remain collaborators for most of the former's life. An early example of Bronzino's hand has often been detected in the

Capponi Chapel The Barbadori Chapel, later Capponi Chapel, is a chapel in the church of Santa Felicita in Florence, central Italy. It was designed by Filippo Brunelleschi, and was later decorated by a cycle of works by the Mannerist painter Pontormo. History Bar ...

in the church of

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by the

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in Florence. Pontormo designed the interior and executed the altarpiece, the masterly ''Deposition from the Cross'' and the sidewall fresco ''

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''. Bronzino apparently was assigned the frescoes on the dome, which have not survived. Of the four empanelled ''tondi'' or roundels depicting each of the

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, two were said by Vasari to have been painted by Bronzino. His style is so similar to his master's that scholars still debate the specific attributions. Towards the end of his life, Bronzino took a prominent part in the activities of the Florentine

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, of which he was a founding member in 1563. The painter

Alessandro Allori Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori (Florence, 31 May 153522 September 1607) was an Italian painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school. Biography In 1540, after the death of his father, Allori was brought up and trai ...

was his favourite pupil, and Bronzino was living in the Allori family house at the time of his death in Florence in 1572 (Alessandro was also the father of

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).Cecil Gould, ''The Sixteenth Century Italian Schools, National Gallery Catalogues'', (London 1975), Bronzino spent the majority of his career in Florence. Bronzino - Eleonora di Toledo col figlio Giovanni - Google Art Project

Bronzino - Eleonora di Toledo col figlio Giovanni - Google Art Project

Work

Portraits

Angelo Bronzino - Portrait of a Young Man

Bronzino first received Medici patronage in 1539, when he was one of the many artists chosen to execute the elaborate decorations for the wedding of

Cosimo I de' Medici Cosimo I de' Medici (12 June 1519 – 21 April 1574) was the second Duke of Florence from 1537 until 1569, when he became the first Grand Duke of Tuscany, a title he held until his death. Life Rise to power Cosimo was born in Florence on 12 ...

Eleonora di Toledo Eleanor of Toledo (Italian: ''Eleonora di Toledo'', 11 January 1522 – 17 December 1562), born Doña Leonor Álvarez de Toledo y Osorio, was a Spanish noblewoman and Duchess of Florence as the first wife of Cosimo I de' Medici. A keen businessw ...

, daughter of the

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. It was not long before he became, and remained for most of his career, the official court painter of the Duke and his court. His portrait figures – often read as static, elegant, and stylish exemplars of unemotional haughtiness and assurance – influenced the course of European court portraiture for a century. These well known paintings exist in many workshop versions and copies. In addition to images of the Florentine elite, Bronzino also painted idealized portraits of the

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(c. 1530, now in

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) and

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. Bronzino's best-known works comprise the aforementioned series of the duke and duchess,

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and

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, and figures of their court such as Bartolomeo Panciatichi and his wife Lucrezia. These paintings, especially those of the duchess, are known for their minute attention to the detail of her costume, which almost takes on a personality of its own in the image at right. Here the Duchess is pictured with her second son Giovanni, who died of malaria in 1562, along with his mother; however it is the sumptuous fabric of the dress that takes up more space on the canvas than either of the sitters. Indeed, the dress itself has been the object of some scholarly debate. The elaborate gown has been rumoured to be so beloved by the duchess that she was ultimately buried in it; when this myth was debunked, others suggested that perhaps the garment never existed at all and Bronzino invented the entire thing, perhaps working only from a fabric swatch. In any case, this picture was reproduced over and over again by Bronzino and his shop, becoming one of the most iconic images of the duchess. The version pictured here is in the

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, and is one of the finest surviving examples. Bronzino's so-called "allegorical portraits", such as that of a Genoese admiral, ''

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'', are less typical but possibly even more fascinating owing to the peculiarity of placing a publicly recognized personality in the nude as a mythical figure. Finally, in addition to being a painter, Bronzino was also a poet, and his most personal portraits are perhaps those of other literary figures such as that of his friend the poet

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. The eroticized nature of these virile nude male portraits, as well as homoerotic references in his poetry, have led scholars to believe that Bronzino was homosexual.

Religious and allegorical subjects

In 1540/41, Bronzino began work on the fresco decoration of the Chapel of Eleanora di Toledo in the

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and an oil on panel ''

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'' to be an

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for the chapel. Before this commission, his style in the religious genre was less Mannerist, and was based in balanced compositions of the High Renaissance. Yet he became elegant and classicizing (cf.

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) in this fresco cycle, and his religious works are examples of the mid-16th-century aesthetics of the Florentine court – traditionally interpreted as highly stylized and non-personal or emotive. ''

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'' is typical of Bronzino's approach at this time, though it should not be claimed that Bronzino or the court was lacking in religious fervour on the basis of the preferred court fashion. Indeed, the

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Eleanora was a generous patron to the recently founded

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order. Bronzino's work tends to include sophisticated references to earlier painters, as in one of his last grand frescoes called ''The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence'' (San Lorenzo, 1569), in which almost every one of the extraordinarily contorted poses can be traced back to

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or to

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, whom Bronzino idolized (cf. Brock). Bronzino's skill with the

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was even more enigmatically deployed in the celebrated ''

'', which conveys strong feelings of

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under the pretext of a moralizing

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. His other major works include the design of a series of

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on '' The Story of Joseph'', for the Palazzo Vecchio. Many of Bronzino's works are still in Florence but other examples can be found in the

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, and elsewhere.

Selected works

* ''St. Mark'' (c. 1525) - Oil on Wood, Capponi Chapel, Santa Felicita, Florence * ''St. Matthew'' (c. 1525) - Oil on Wood, Capponi Chapel, Santa Felicita, Florence * ''Portrait of Lorenzo Lenzi'' (1527–28) - Oil on panel,

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, Milan * ''

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'' (c. 1530) - Oil on panel, 105 x 100 cm,

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, Florence * ''Portrait of Dante'' (1530) - Oil on panel, Milan * ''Portrait of a Lady in Green'' (1530–32) - Oil on panel, 76,7 x 65,4 cm, Royal Collection, Windsor * ''

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'' (c. 1533) - Oil on panel, 87 x 77 cm,

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, Madrid * ''Holy Family'' (1534–40) - Oil on wood, 124.5 x 99.5 cm,

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, Vienna * '' Adoration of the Shepherds'' (1535–1540) - Oil on wood, 65,3 x 46,7 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest * ''

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'' (before 1537) - Oil on panel, 102 x 85 cm, State Museums,

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* ''

Portrait of Bartolomeo Panciatichi The ''Portrait of Bartolomeo Panciatichi'' is a painting by the Italian artist Agnolo di Cosimo, known as Bronzino, finished around 1540. It is housed in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence, Italy since 1704. Bartolomeo Panciatichi was a Florentine hu ...

'' (c. 1540) - Tempera on wood, 104 x 84 cm,

, Florence * ''

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''(c. 1540) - Oil on wood, 117 x 93 cm, Uffizi, Florence * '' Portrait of a Young Man with a Book'' (c. 1540) - Oil on wood, 96 x 75 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York * ''

'' (''Allegory''; 1540–45) - Oil on panel, 146 x 116 cm,

* ''

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'' (1540–45) - Fresco, 320 x 385 cm,

* ''

'' (1540–45) - Oil on panel, 268 x 173 cm, Musée des Beaux- Arts, Besançon *''Alessandro de Médici'' (1540–1553) Oil on panel, 34,90 x 26,20 cm,

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, Madrid. * ''

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'' (1541–42) - Fresco, 320 x 490 cm,

* ''Portrait of a Young Girl'' (1541–45) - Oil on wood, 58 x 46,5 cm, Uffizi, Florence * ''

Portrait of Bia de' Medici The ''Portrait of Bia de' Medici'' is an oil-tempera on wood painting by Agnolo Bronzino, dating to around 1542 and now in the Uffizi in Florence. For a long time it was displayed in the Tribuna at the heart of the museum, but since 2012 it has b ...

'' (c. 1542) - Tempera on panel, 63 x 48 cm,

* ''

Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici The ''Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici'' is a painting by the Italian artist Agnolo di Cosimo, known as Bronzino, finished in 1545. In his position as court painter for the Medici, Bronzino was author of several portraits of Grand Duchy of Tuscany ...

'' (1545) - Oil on panel, 74 x 58 cm,

*''Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici'' (c.1545) - Oil on panel, 76,5 x 59 cm, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. * ''

Portrait of Giovanni de' Medici as a Child The ''Portrait of Giovanni de' Medici as a Child'' (c. 1545) is an oil on panel painting by the Florentine artist Agnolo Bronzino. It is currently located at the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence. Background This portrait uses oil paint on panel ...

'' (c. 1545) - Oil on wood, 58 x 46 cm, Uffizi, Florence * ''

Portrait of Eleanor of Toledo The ''Portrait of Eleanor of Toledo and Her Son'' is a painting by the Italian artist Agnolo di Cosimo, known as Bronzino, finished ca. 1545. One of his most famous works, it is housed in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence, Italy and is considered on ...

'' (c. 1545) - Oil on panel, 115 x 96 cm, Uffizi, Florence * ''

Portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi The ''Portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi'' is an oil on panel painting by the Italian artist Agnolo di Cosimo, known as Bronzino, finished around 1545. It is housed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. Lucrezia di Sigismondo Pucci was the wife ...

'' (c. 1545) - Oil on panel, 101 x 82.8 cm, Uffizi, Florence * ''Christ on the Cross'' (c. 1545) - Oil on panel, 145 x 115 cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts,

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* ''

Portrait of Stefano Colonna ''Portrait of Stefano IV Colonna'' is an oil on canvas painting completed by the Italian Renaissance painter Bronzino and housed in the Pinacoteca of the Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica (Palazzo Barberini) in Rome, Italy. Description The portra ...

'' (1546) - Oil on panel, 125 x 95 cm,

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, Rome * ''

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'' (1550) - Oil on panel,

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, Madrid * ''Portrait of a Lady'' (c. 1550) - Oil on wood, 109 x 85 cm,

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, Turin * ''PortraIt of a Young Man (possibly

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)'' (c. 1550) * ''Venus, Cupid and Jealousy (or Envy)'' (c. 1550) - Oil on wood, 192 x 142 cm,

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, Budapest * ''

'' (1550–1555) - Oil on canvas, 115 x 53 cm,

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, Milan * ''

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'' (1550–1555) - Oil on wood, 120 x 92 cm,

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, Rome * ''Portrait of Pierantonio Bandini'' (c.1550–1555) - Oil on wood, 106,7 x 82,5 cm,

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'' (1551) - Tempera on wood, 58.5 x 41.5 cm, Uffizi, Florence * '' Portrait of Maria de' Medici'' (1551) - Tempera on wood, 52.5 x 38 cm, Uffizi, Florence * ''Portrait of Ludovico Capponi'' (1551) - Oil on wood, 117 x 86 cm, Frick Collection, New York * ''Christ in Limbo'', 1552,

, Museo dell'Opera di Santa Croce * ''

Portrait of the Dwarf Nano Morgante ''Portrait of the Dwarf Nano Morgante'' is a 1552 double-sided painting offering front and back views on either side of the canvas by Bronzino of Nano Morgante (nickname of Braccio di Bartolo) the famed buffoon dwarf of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand ...

'' (1552) * ''Holy Family'' (1555–1560) - Tempera on wood, 117 x 99 cm, Pushkin Museum, Moscow * ''Portrait of Laura Battiferri'' (1555–1560) - Oil on canvas, 83 x 60 cm, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence * '' Noli me tangere'' (1561) - Oil on canvas, 291 x 195 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris * ''

Allegory of Happiness ''Allegory of Happiness'' is an oil on copper painting by Bronzino, probably first produced for the Studiolo of Francesco I, signed ''BROZ. FAC.'' and now in the Uffizi in Florence. It is now in a fluted and gilded 17th century wooden frame. Mos ...

'' (1564) - Oil on copper, 40 x 30 cm, Uffizi, Florence * ''Deposition of Christ'' (1565) - Oil on wood, 350 x 235 cm, Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence * '' Martyrdom of St. Lawrence'' (1569) - Fresco,

San Lorenzo San Lorenzo is the Italian and Spanish name for Lawrence of Rome, Saint Lawrence, the 3rd-century Christian martyr, and may refer to: Places Argentina * San Lorenzo, Santa Fe * San Lorenzo Department, Chaco * Monte San Lorenzo, a mountain on t ...

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Saint Sebastian Saint Sebastian (in Latin: ''Sebastianus''; Narbo, Gallia Narbonensis, Roman Empire c. AD 255 – Rome, Italia, Roman Empire c. AD 288) was an early Christian saint and martyr. According to traditional belief, he was killed during the Dioclet ...

'', 1533. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. File:Angelo Bronzino - Portrait of Andrea Doria as Neptune - WGA3261.jpg, ''

Andrea Doria as Neptune The ''Portrait of Andrea Doria as Neptune'' (Italian: ''Ritratto di Andrea Doria in veste di Nettuno'') is an oil painting on canvas completed by Bronzino for a private collection in either the 1530s or 1540s. It is now in the Pinacoteca di Bre ...

'', 1550–55,

, Milan File:Agnolo Bronzino - Eleonora of Toledo - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Portrait of Eleonora of Toledo'', c. 1539 File:Agnolo Bronzino - A Young Woman and Her Little Boy - Google Art Project.jpg, ''A portrait of an unknown woman and boy'', c. 1540. File:Painting - Portrait of Bartolomeo Panciatichi by Bronzino.jpg, ''

'', c. 1540. File:Angelo Bronzino - Laura Battiferri - WGA03262.jpg, ''Portrait of Laura Battiferri'', 1555–60 File:Agnolo di Cosimo, called Bronzino - Holy Family with St. Anne and the Infant St. John - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Holy Family with St. Anne and the Infant St. John'', 1545 File:Angelo Bronzino 037.jpg, ''Portrait of Bia de' Medici'', 1545 File:Angelo Bronzino - Portrait of a Man Holding a Statuette - WGA03263.jpg, Portrait of a Man Holding a Statuette, 1545 File:Bronzino - Sacra famiglia Panciatichi or Madonna Panciatichi - Google Art Project.jpg, Sacra famiglia Panciatichi or Madonna Panciatichi, 1545 File:Stefano IV Colonna, por Bronzino.jpg, ''Portrait of Stefano Colonna'', 1546 File:Agnolo Bronzino - Cosimo I de' Medici in armour - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Portrait Cosimo I de' Medici in armour'', c. 1545 File:Angelo Bronzino - portrait of Ugolino Martelli - WGA3264.jpg, ''Ugolino Martelli'', c. 1537 File:Agnolo Bronzino - Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici as Orpheus - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici as Orpheus'', c. 1537–39 File:Angelo Bronzino - Venus, Cupid and Envy - WGA3298.jpg, ''Venus, Cupid and Envy'', c. 1548–50 File:Angelo Bronzino 032.jpg, ''John the Baptist'', 1553 File:Garcia de' Medici by Angelo Bronzino.jpg, Garcia de' Medici,

Prado Museum The Prado Museum ( ; ), officially known as Museo Nacional del Prado, is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid. It is widely considered to house one of the world's finest collections of European art, dating from the ...

. File:Alejandro de Médici.jpg, Alessandro de' Medici,

References

Footnotes Citations

External links

Bronzino: ''artist and poet''. InToscana.

Agnolo Bronzino's Biography, Style and Artworks

The National Gallery: Agnolo Bronzino

Biography Angolo Bronzino at ''Encyclopaedia Britannica''
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Bruce Adolphe Bruce Adolphe (born May 31, 1955) is a composer, music scholar, the author of several books on music, and pianist. He is currently Resident Lecturer and Director of Family Concerts of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and founder and crea ...

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"Of Art and Onions: Homage to Bronzino"''Italian Paintings: Florentine School''
a collection catalog containing information about the artist and his works (see pages: 200–204). {{DEFAULTSORT:Bronzino 1503 births 1572 deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Florence Italian Mannerist painters Italian portrait painters Court painters 16th century in LGBT history

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