Maybe I wasn't paying attention during the Italian Renaissance lecture in my college art history class. In any case, not until The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512-1570 did I learn that Bronzino wasn't a fish. My bad. Painting doesn't get much prettier than this
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| Saint Sebastian (ca 1532-35) |
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| Portrait of a Girl (ca 1540-41) |
Bronzino painted
Cosimo I, the second Duke of Florence, at least twice. Thanks to an out-of-wedlock succession problem, Cosimo climbed to the top of the Medici heap, a very powerful place to be once upon a time.
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| Cosimo I de' Medici as Orpheus (ca 1537-39) |
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| Cosimo I de' Medici in Armor (ca 1545) |
Baccio Bandinelli captured the big cheese's likeness in marble, too.
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| Cosimo I de' Medici in Armor (ca 1544-45) |
Art historians have characterized Bronzino's works as "
mannerist" because of its emphasis on idealized beauty. Count me in!
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| Portrait of a Woman (ca 1550-55) |
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| Laura Battiferri (ca 1560) |
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