Bronzino (1503-1572) & Workshop Eleonora di Toledo col figlio (Eleonora of Toledo and Her Son) c.1545–1550 Oil on panel, 121.6 x 100 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Portraiture was an important political tool for the ducal Medici family. Often…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Eleonora di Toledo col figlio Giovanni (Eleonora di Toledo with Her Son Giovanni) c.1545 Oil on panel, 115 x 96 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze The magnificent portrait of Eleonora di Toledo together with her second son Giovanni…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di Giovanni de’ Medici bambino (Portrait of Giovanni de’ Medici as a Child) 1545 Oil on panel, 58 x 45.6 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze See also: • Medici, Giovanni di Cosimo I de’ (1543-1562)
Bronzino (1503-1572) Garzia de’ Medici c.1550 Oil on panel, 48 x 38 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This portrait of García de’ Medici (1547–1562), third son of Cosimo de’ Medici and Leonor de Toledo, is an excellent example of the…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Una giovane donna e il suo bambino (A Young Woman and Her Little Boy) c.1540 Oil on panel, 99.5 x 76 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A woman wearing a crimson-red brocade dress and gold jewelry fills…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Sacra Famiglia (The Holy Family) c.1527–1528 Oil on panel, 101.3 x 78.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Bronzino (1503-1572) Madonna e Bambino con santi (The Madonna and Child with Saints) c.1540 Oil on wood, 101.6 x 81.3 cm National Gallery, London Elderly Saint Elizabeth looks down over the Virgin Mary’s shoulder at her son Saint John the…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Allegoria del trionfo di Venere (An Allegory with Venus and Cupid) c.1545 Oil on wood, 146.1 x 116.2 cm National Gallery, London This is one of Bronzino’s most complex and enigmatic paintings. It contains a tangle of moral…
Giorgione (c.1477-1510) Ragazzo con la freccia (Boy with an Arrow) c.1505 Oil on poplar, 48 × 41.8 × 2.6 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna This bust of an idealized young man with a rich mane of curls and an arrow in…
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self-Portrait 1629 Oil on oak, 15.6 x 12.7 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich This self-portrait of the twenty-three-year-old artist, painted in Leiden, belongs to a series of head studies (Dutch: tronies) in which Rembrandt experimented with light and shadow,…