Bronzino (1503-1572) Isabella de’ Medici 1552–1553 Oil on panel 44 x 36 cm Nationalmuseum, Stockholm Attributed to Bronzino Isabella de’ Medici, the second daughter of Grand Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici and Eleonora of Toledo. She was born in 1542, and in…
Allori, Alessandro (1535-1607) Maria de’ Medici c.1555 Oil on poplar, 116 x 90 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Since the early Renaissance the foremost artists and workshops in Florence had worked for the Medici. In 1570, Cosimo I became Grand-Duke of Tuscany, elevating…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di donna anziana con libro, Maria Salviati? (Portrait of an Elderly Lady with a book, Maria Salviati?) c.1540 Oil on wood panel, 127 x 100 cm Legion of Honor, San Francisco Agnolo Bronzino executed this stoic portrait around the…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di Cosimo I de’ Medici (Portrait of Cosimo I de’ Medici) c.1560 Oil on wood, 84 x 64 cm National Gallery, Prague See also: • Medici, Cosimo I de’ (1519-1574)
Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di Cosimo I de’ Medici come Orfeo (Portrait of Cosimo I de Medici as Orpheus) c.1537–1539 Oil on panel, 93.7 × 76.4 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici is shown as the mythological musician…
Raffaello (1483-1520) La Trasfigurazione (The Transfiguration) 1516–1520 Tempera grassa on wood, 410 x 279 cm Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vaticano Cardinal Giulio de’ Medici (the future pope Clement VII) commissioned two paintings for the cathedral of S. Giusto of Narbonne, the city of which…
Raffaello (1483-1520) and Collaborator Ritratto di giovane (Portrait of a Young Man) c.1518–1519 Oil on panel, 43.8 x 29 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid This portrait was acquired from the Julius Böhler gallery in Berlin in December 1928 as a work by…
(1519–1589) Caterina Maria Romula di Lorenzo de’ Medici Queen consort of France (1547–1559) Queen regent of France (1560–1563) Works commissioned by her: Michelangelo (1475-1564) Disegno per una statua equestre di Enrico II 1559–1564 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Born April 13 1519 Firenze (Italia)…
Michelangelo (1475-1564) Disegno per una statua equestre di Enrico II di Francia (Design for an Equestrian Statue of Henry II of France) 1559–1564 Chalk on paper, 13 x 12 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam In 1559 Catherine of Medici commissioned Michelangelo to create…
Bronzino (1503-1572) Ritratto di Cosimo I de’ Medici (Portrait of Cosimo I de’ Medici) 1537 Oil on canvas (handed over from wood panel), 117.5 x 87.5 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg You are looking now at work by an outstanding Mannerist…