Bronzino

1503–1572 · Mannerism

What to look for

Cold, polished Mannerist portraits with porcelain skin, elegant hands and stiff, aloof sitters.

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Works

“Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time”, 1545 — National Gallery
“Portrait of Eleanor of Toledo and her son Giovanni de' Medici”, 1544 — Uffizi Gallery
“Portrait of Andrea Doria as Neptune”, 1545 — Pinacoteca di Brera
“Portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi”, 1545 — Uffizi Gallery
“Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici”, 1544 — Uffizi Gallery
“Flaying of Marsyas”, 1531 — Hermitage Museum
“Portrait of the Dwarf Nano Morgante”, 1553 — Palazzo Pitti
“Portrait of Bia de' Medici”, 1543 — Uffizi Gallery
“Maria (di Cosimo I) de' Medici”, 1551 — Uffizi Gallery
“Deposition of Christ”, 1543 — Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon
“Portrait of Giovanni de' Medici as a Child”, 1545 — Uffizi Gallery
“Portrait of a Young Man with a Book”, 1530s — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Allegory of fortune”, 1567 — Uffizi Gallery
“Crossing of the Red Sea”, 1541 — Palazzo Vecchio
“Portrait of Bartolomeo Panciatichi”, 1540 — Uffizi Gallery
“Panciatichi Holy Family”, 1539 — Uffizi Gallery
“Portrait of Ugolino Martelli”, 1540 — Gemäldegalerie
“Saint Sebastian”, 1533 — Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
“Andrea Doria as Neptune”, 1545 — Galleria Doria Pamphilj
“Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence”, 1565–1568 — Basilica of San Lorenzo
“Portrait of Stefano Colonna”, 1546 — Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica
“Portrait of a girl”, 1545 — Uffizi Gallery
“Pietà with Saint Mary Magdalene”, 1529 — Uffizi Gallery
“Portrait of a Man Holding a Statuette”, 1550 — Louvre
“Portrait of Cosimo I de'Medici”, 1537 — Hermitage Museum
“Pygmalion and Galatea”, 1529 — Uffizi Gallery
“Garzia de' Medici”, 1550 — Museo del Prado
“Portrait of a Young Man”, 1540–1572 — Gemäldegalerie
“The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (Madonna Stroganoff)”, 1541 — Pushkin Museum
“Holy Family with St. Anne and the Infant St. John”, 1545 — Kunsthistorisches Museum
“The Madonna and Child with Saints”, 1545 — National Gallery
“The Adoration of the Shepherds”, 1539 — Museum of Fine Arts
“Noli me tangere”, 1561 — Louvre
“Portrait of Francesco I de' Medici as a Child”, 1551 — Uffizi Gallery
“Portrait of a Lady in Red (Francesca Salviati?)”, 1533 — Städel Museum
“Portrait of a Lady in Green”, 1530–1532 — Royal Collection
“Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici in armour”, 1545 — National Museum in Poznań
“Portrait of Luca Martini”, 1555 — Palazzo Pitti
“Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici as Orpheus”, 1537 — Philadelphia Museum of Art
“Portrait of a Lady”, 1550 — Galleria Sabauda

Bronzino

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