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Item No: 180558
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Bronzino, Il (1503-72)
Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano, called Il Bronzino, was born in Monticelli, outside Florence. He was first a student of and then assistant to Jacopo Pontormo, one of the founders of Florentine Mannerism. Pontormo, after studies with Andrea del Sarto, was influenced by Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Durer, and passed on these influences to Il Bronzino, one of the few artists able to get along with the difficult old man.
In 1523, when an outbreak of plague struck Florence, Pontormo took Bronzino with him to Certosa where they worked together on a series of frescoes, now badly damaged. During this period, Il Bronzino's own reputation was established and by 1530 he was working for the Duke of Urbino. In 1532 he returned to Florence where he painted portraits and completed a fresco of his own before again working briefly with Pontormo at Careggi and Castello. In 1540 Duke Cosimo I, de'Medici appointed Il Bronzino his court painter and in 1545 the artist began the task (not completed until 1565) of decorating the private chapel of the Duke's wife, Eleanor of Toledo.
Il Bronzino is most famous for his portraits, formal in style and with an enamel-like surface. He also painted decorative, allegorical scenes and a great many altarpieces for various Florentine churches. More classical in feeling and character than his master Pontormo, Il Bronzino brought to Mannerism an almost marble-like purity of form that was not to be equalled until the nineteenth century by Ingres. Active as an artist all his life Il Bronzino aided Vasari and other artists in the founding of the Florence Academy of Fine Arts in 1563. He died in 1572 in San Lorenzo where, in 1569, he had begun work on a large fresco, completed by his pupil Alessandro Allori. |
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