Bronzino was born on November 17, 1503. What little information is available reveals that he was of modest descent, being the son of butcher from a suburb of Monticelli. Due to his hailing from a lower class, he most likely did not have a surname. His full name was Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano di Agnolo di Antonio di Agnolo di Toro. His early training took place under the supervision of an unidentified artist, followed shortly afterwards by several years of work with Raffaellino del Garbo (1476-1524). Afterwards Bronzino joined the studio of Pontormo, from whom he learned his distinctive artistic style. Continue..
c 1525. Oil on panel. Diameter 77 cm. Cappono Chapel, Santa Felicita, Florence. Read Note.
c 1525. Oil on panel. Diameter 77 cm. Cappono Chapel, Santa Felicita, Florence. Read Note.
c.1525-26. Oil on panel. 101 x 79 cm. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.
c.1525-26. Oil on panel. 101 x 79 cm. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.
. Black chalk. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy.
c.1527-28. Oil on panel. 90 x 71 cm. Municipal Collections of Art in the Castello Sforzesco, Milan, Italy.
c.1528-32. Oil on panel. 76.6 x 66.2 cm. Royal Collection, UK.
c.1528-32. Oil on panel. 76.6 x 66.2 cm. Royal Collection, UK.
c.1528-32. Oil on panel. 76.6 x 66.2 cm. Royal Collection, UK.
1529. Oil on panel. 115 x 110 cm. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy. Read Note.
c.1530-32. Oil on panel. 64 x 45 cm. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy. Read Note.
c.1530-32. Oil on panel. 64 x 45 cm. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy.
c.1530-32. Oil on panel. 64 x 45 cm. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy.
c.1530-32. Oil on panel. 64 x 45 cm. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy.
c.1530-32. Oil on panel transferred to canvas. 48 x 119 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. Read Note.
c.1530-32. Oil on panel tramsferred to canvas. 48 x 119 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
c.1530-32. Oil on panel tramsferred to canvas. 48 x 119 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
c.1530-32. Oil on panel tramsferred to canvas. 48 x 119 cm. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
c.1530-32. Red chalk with white highlights. 25 x 18 cm. Louvre, Paris, France.
1530s. Oil on panel. 95 x 75 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
Bronzino: Painter and Poet at the Court of the Medici by Carlo Falciani, Antonio Natali. Mandragora, 2010.
The Drawings of Bronzino by Carmen C. Bambach, Janet Cox-Rearick, George R. Goldner. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2010.
Bronzino by Maurice Brock. Flammarion, 2002.
Pontormo, Bronzino, and the Medici: The Transformation of the Renaissance Portrait in Florence by Carl Brandon Strehlke. Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 2004.
Pontormo, Bronzino, and Allori: A Geneaology of Florentine Art by Elizabeth Pilliod. Yale University Press, 2001.
Bronzino: Renaissance Painter as Poet by Deborah Parker. Cambridge University Press, 2000.