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Bronzino
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Bronzino
Il, real name Agnolo di Cosimo. 1503--72, Florentine mannerist painter


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JJ) Agnolo Bronzino - Andrea Doria as Neptune (c1540-1550), Venus and Cupid (c1545) As precious as a ruby on a white throat, Bronzino is the last genius of the Florentine Renaissance, the painter of corruption who saw the last days of the city's republic and who served the Medici "tyrants".
Focusing on a selection of portraits painted primarily by Jacopo Pontormo, Agnolo Bronzino, and Alessandro Allori, she suggests that "women's portraits were ideal vehicles to promote notions of semi-deification or absolutism" (9).
Can painting reliably serve a high and serious purpose, or should we just accept that it is a thing "of no utility other than pleasure," as the painter Agnolo Bronzino described it in 1547?
 
 
 
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