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Agnolo di Cosimo (Italian: [ˈaɲɲolo di ˈkɔːzimo]; 17 November 1503 – 23 November 1572), usually known as Bronzino (Italian: Il Bronzino [il bronˈdziːno]) or Agnolo Bronzino, was an Italian Mannerist painter from Florence.
Il Bronzino (born November 17, 1503, Florence [Italy]—died November 23, 1572, Florence) was a Florentine painter whose polished and elegant portraits are outstanding examples of the Mannerist style.
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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', also in the National Gallery.
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By 1540, Pontormo’s student Agnolo Bronzino (1503–1572) had become the leading artist working in this style in Florence and court painter to Cosimo I de’ Medici, grand duke of Tuscany.
Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) Italian. 1530s. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 612. The identity of this arrogant young man is unknown, but he must have belonged to Bronzino’s close circle of literary friends in Florence and probably holds a book of poetry.
Bronzino: 12 works. 'In the finished work, Bronzino made only small changes to Pontormo's composition.'. 'The present painting has been dated 1533, at a time when Bronzino was defining his...
Bronzino was a poet as well as a painter. He achieved fame and renown in his own lifetime in addition to the respect of his contemporaries and was one of the most influential figures in the Accademia del Disegno, which he cofounded in 1563, as well as in the city’s intellectual circles.
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