Reading154 Agnolo Bronzino (1)

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Annunciation Altarpiece, c. 1540 Palazzo Vecchio,
Florence
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In 1540, soon after marrying Eleonora of Toledo,
Cosimo de' Medici moved from the Palazzo Medici
into the Palazzo della Signoria, publicly
proclaiming his dominance over all civic
institutions. Cosimo remodeled the building to
accommodate his expanding family and on the upper
floor constructed a small cubical chapel for
Eleanors private devotions, completely
decorated by Bronzino with imagery that
ostensibly referred to Christian redemption but
which barely veiled his dynastic and political
intentions
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Annunciation Altarpiece, c. 1540 Palazzo Vecchio,
Florence Cappella di Eleonora in the Palazzo
Vecchio, Florence (1540-45)
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Three-dimensional model and multimedia
application of the Chapel of Eleonora by Bronzino
at the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence
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Agnolo Bronzino of Florence Italy (1503-1572),
known as Il Bronzino, was a Mannerist painter.
Mixing styles of the late High Renaissance into
the early Baroque period, Mannerists often
depicted their subjects in unnatural forms.
Bronzinos works have been described as icy
portraits that put an abyss between the subject
and the viewer.   After studying with Raffaellino
del Garbo, an early Florentine Renaissance
painter, Bronzino became a student of Jacopo
Pontormo, a founder of the Florentine Mannerist
style. It was under Pontormo, that Bronzino was
greatly influenced, but was also one of the few
students to endure studies under the difficult
Andrea del Sarto. It was under both Pontormo and
Sarto that Il Bronzino was influenced by
Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci who Pontormo
was even a student of
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Holy Family with St Anne and the Infant St.
John Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
Holy Family with St Anne and the Infant St.
John Paris, Musée du Louvre
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Paris, Musée du Louvre
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
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Holy Family with St Anne and the Infant St.
John Paris, Musée du Louvre
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Holy Family with St Anne and the Infant St.
John Paris, Musée du Louvre
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Holy Family with St Anne and the Infant St.
John Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
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Holy Family with St Anne and the Infant St.
John Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
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Holy Family with St Anne and the Infant St.
John Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
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Holy Family with St Anne and the Infant St.
John Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
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Holy Family with St Anne and the Infant St.
John Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
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Holy Family with St Anne and the Infant St. John
Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum
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Annunciation Galleria degli Uffizi
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The Madonna and Child with the Infant St. John
and a Saint The National Gallery, London
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The Madonna and Child with the Infant St. John
the Baptist and a Saint The National Gallery,
London
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The Madonna and Child with the Infant St. John
the Baptist and a Saint The National Gallery,
London
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Pushkin Museum Loans Painting by Bronzino to the
Old Masters Gallery in Dresden
The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the
Baptist (Madonna Stroganoff) Pushkin Museum of
Fine Art, Moscow
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The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the
Baptist (Madonna Stroganoff) Pushkin Museum of
Fine Art, Moscow
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The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the
Baptist (Madonna Stroganoff) Pushkin Museum of
Fine Art, Moscow
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The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the
Baptist (Madonna Stroganoff) Pushkin Museum of
Fine Art, Moscow
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Bronzino exhibition in Florence
Evangelist St Marco Florence, Church of Santa
Felicità Capponi chapel
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Evangelist St Matew Florence, Church of Santa
Felicità Capponi chapel
Evangelist St Luke
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The Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist (The
Panciatichi Madonna) 1540 ca, Galleria degli
Uffizi, Firenze
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The picture belonged to Bartolomeo Panciatichi,
friend and counselor in France of Cosimo I de'
Medici
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The face of the Virgin Mary remembers the one of
wife of Panciatichi, Lucrezia, and even the
features of Venus
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This painting is one of the most representative
works of Agnolo Bronzino because it shows an
incredible mastery of colors, lights and shapes
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Text and pictures Internet All copyrights belong
to their respective owners Presentation Sanda
Foisoreanu
2017
Sound Philippe Jaroussky Cum Dederit
and Tecum Principium by A. Vivaldi