Works and artists Agnolo Bronzino Ancient art Bronzino Five hundred Mannerism Pisa
The most famous image of Eleanor of Toledo, born Leonor Álvarez de Toledo y Osorio, wife of Cosimo I de' Medici and duchess consort of Tuscany, is surely the one painted by Bronzino and now preserved in the Uffizi: the Portrait of…
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Works and artists Ancient art Bronzino Five hundred Mannerism Tuscany
For a long time the scientific community has been wondering about the identity of the lady depicted in the Portrait of a Lady in Red, one of the masterpieces of the Städel Museum in Frankfurt. But it has also long wondered about the…
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Works and artists Ancient art Bronzino Five hundred Mannerism
A "drama of intellectual hysteria" in which a complex tangle of symbols, formal interlocking games, ideational abstraction and chromatic abstraction add up: this is how Andrea Emiliani defined Bronzino 'sAllegory (Agnolo di Cosimo Tori…
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Works and artists Bronzino Five hundred Florence Mannerism Tuscany
At the Uffizi, in the center of the "Hall of Dynasties," stands one of the most famous portraits of the 16th century: the Portrait of Eleanor of Toledo with her son Giovanni de' Medici, one of the greatest masterpieces by Bronzino (Agnolo…
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Works and artists Ancient art Bronzino Five hundred Florence Mannerism Tuscany
There are not many official portraits of children in the history of art, and they are generally depicted alongside an adult, who could be either one of their parents or their guardian. Yet this little girl, centuries later, still…
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It is one of the most famous portraits of Dante Alighieri (Florence, 1265 - Ravenna, 1321), even though it was made more than two hundred years after his death: it is the allegorical portrait painted by Bronzino (Angelo di Cosimo Tori…
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News Focus Ancient art Bronzino Five hundred Florentine Red Giorgio Vasari Michelangelo Pontormo Raphael Renaissance
Starting today, Il Cinquecento a Firenze (The Sixteenth Century in Florence), the first audiobook series by Finestre sull'Arte, is on sale online. Eleven volumes, ten hours of storytelling to narrate the developments and…
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Exhibitions Ancient art Caravaggio Six hundred
From Dec. 21, 2017 to Jan. 7, 2018, in Spazio Trentacinque on the 36th floor of the Intesa Sanpaolo skyscraper, the painting by Bronzino depicting the Madonna and Child, St. Elizabeth and St. John will be on display. The newly restored…
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