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1503 - 1572. 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.
Mannerism: Bronzino (1503–1572) and his Contemporaries | Essay | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History.
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.
'Bronzino's works are considered the epitome of Florentine disegno and, at the same time, its final pinnacle, which had already assumed the character of Mannerism. Bronzino, who was a pupil...
Agnolo Bronzino (1503–1572) The National Gallery, London. (b Monticelli, nr. Florence, 17 Nov. 1503; d Florence, 23 Nov. 1572). Florentine Mannerist painter, the pupil of Pontormo, who virtually adopted him as a son and introduced his portrait as a child into his painting Joseph in Egypt (c.1518, NG, London).
Exhibition Overview. This exhibition is the first ever dedicated to Agnolo Bronzino (1503–1572), and presents nearly all the known drawings by or attributed to this leading Italian Mannerist artist, who was active primarily in Florence.
Agnolo di Cosimo, usually known as Bronzino or Agnolo Bronzino, was an Italian Mannerist painter from Florence. His sobriquet, Bronzino, may refer to his relatively dark skin or reddish hair....
