page_title: Bronzino
section_title: Selected works
hierarchical_section_title: Bronzino / Selected works
context_page_description: Agnolo di Cosimo, usually known as Bronzino or Agnolo Bronzino, was an Italian Mannerist painter from Florence. His sobriquet, Bronzino, may refer to his relatively dark skin or reddish hair.
  He lived all his life in Florence, and from his late 30s was kept busy as the court painter of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. He was mainly a portraitist but also painted many religious subjects, and a few allegorical subjects, which include what is probably his best known work, Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time, c. 1544–45, now in London. Many portraits of the Medicis exist in several versions with varying degrees of participation by Bronzino himself, as Cosimo was a pioneer of the copied portrait sent as a diplomatic gift.
  He trained with Pontormo, the leading Florentine painter of the first generation of Mannerism, and his style was greatly influenced by him, but his elegant and somewhat elongated figures always appear calm and somewhat reserved, lacking the agitation and emotion of those by his teacher. They have often been found cold and artificial, and his reputation suffered from the general critical disfavour attached to Mannerism in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
context_section_description: St. Mark (c. 1525) - Oil on Wood, Capponi Chapel, Santa Felicita, Florence
  St. Matthew (c. 1525) - Oil on Wood, Capponi Chapel, Santa Felicita, Florence
  St. Sebastian (1525–28) - Oil on panel, 87 x 77 cm, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
  Portrait of Lorenzo Lenzi (1527–28) - Oil on panel, castello Sforzesco, Milan
  Pietà (c. 1530) - Oil on panel, 105 x 100 cm, Uffizi, Florence
  Portrait of Dante (1530) - Oil on panel, Milan
  Portrait of a Lady in Green (1530–32) - Oil on panel, 76,7 x 65,4 cm, Royal Collection, Windsor
  Holy Family (1534–40) - Oil on wood, 124.5 x 99.5 cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
  Adoration of the Shepherds (1535–1540) - Oil on wood, 65,3 x 46,7 cm, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
  Portrait of Ugolino Martelli (before 1537) - Oil on panel, 102 x 85 cm, State Museums, Berlin
  Portrait of Bartolomeo Panciatichi (c. 1540) - Tempera on wood, 104 x 84 cm, Uffizi, Florence
  Holy Family (c. 1540) - Oil on wood, 117 x 93 cm, Uffizi, Florence
  Portrait of a Young Man with a Book (c. 1540) - Oil on wood, 96 x 75 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time (Allegory; 1540–45) - Oil on panel, 146 x 116 cm, National Gallery, London
  Adoration of the Bronze Snake (1540–45) - Fresco, 320 x 385 cm, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
  Deposition of Christ (1540–45) - Oil on panel, 268 x 173 cm, Musée des Beaux- Arts, Besançon
  Alessandro de Médici (1540-1553) Oil on panel, 34,90 x 26,20 cm, Museum Cerralbo, Madrid.
  Crossing of the Red Sea (1541–42) - Fresco, 320 x 490 cm, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
  Portrait of a Young Girl (1541–45) - Oil on wood, 58 x 46,5 cm, Uffizi, Florence
  Portrait of Bia de' Medici (c. 1542) - Tempera on panel, 63 x 48 cm, Uffizi, Florence
  Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici (1545) - Oil on panel, 74 x 58 cm,  Uffizi, Florence
  Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici (c.1545) - Oil on panel, 76,5 x 59 cm, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.
  Portrait of Giovanni de' Medici as a Child (c. 1545) - Oil on wood, 58 x 46 cm, Uffizi, Florence
  Portrait of Eleanor of Toledo (c. 1545) - Oil on panel, 115 x 96 cm,  Uffizi, Florence
  Portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi (c. 1545) - Oil on panel, 101 x 82.8 cm, Uffizi, Florence
  Christ on the Cross (c. 1545) - Oil on panel, 145 x 115 cm, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nice
  Portrait of Stefano Colonna (1546) - Oil on panel, 125 x 95 cm, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome
  Portrait of Don Garcia de' Medici (1550) - Oil on panel, Museo del Prado, Madrid
  Portrait of a Lady (c. 1550) - Oil on wood, 109 x 85 cm, Galleria Sabauda, Turin
  Venus, Cupid and Jealousy (or Envy) (c. 1550) - Oil on wood, 192 x 142 cm, Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest
  Portrait of Andrea Doria as Neptune (1550–1555) - Oil on canvas, 115 x 53 cm, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
  St. John the Baptist (1550–1555) - Oil on wood, 120 x 92 cm, Galleria Borghese, Rome
  Portrait of Pierantonio Bandini (c.1550–1555) - Oil on wood, 106,7 x 82,5 cm, National Gallery of Canada
  Portrait of Francesco I de' Medici (1551) - Tempera on wood, 58.5 x 41.5 cm, Uffizi, Florence
  Portrait of Maria de' Medici (1551) - Tempera on wood, 52.5 x 38 cm, Uffizi, Florence
  Portrait of Ludovico Capponi (1551) - Oil on wood, 117 x 86 cm, Frick Collection, New York
  Christ in Limbo, 1552, Florence, Museo dell'Opera di Santa Croce
  Holy Family (1555–1560) - Tempera on wood, 117 x 99 cm, Pushkin Museum, Moscow
  Portrait of Laura Battiferri (1555–1560) - Oil on canvas, 83 x 60 cm, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence
  Noli me tangere (1561) - Oil on canvas, 291 x 195 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris
  Allegory of Happiness (1564) - Oil on copper, 40 x 30 cm, Uffizi, Florence
  Portrait of the Dwarf Morgante (1564)
  Deposition of Christ (1565) - Oil on wood, 350 x 235 cm, Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence
  Martyrdom of St. Lawrence (1569) - Fresco, San Lorenzo, Florence
caption: Lodovico Capponi
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