Monday, February 1, 2010

Agnolo Bronzino at the Met


 

Peter Schjeldahl has an informative article in the New Yorker about Agnolo Bronzino the sixteenth century Italian Mannerist at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City.

More images of the drawings are at Apogeepoet

The Drawings of Bronzino (Metropolitan Museum of Art) The Drawings of Bronzino (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

 
Left,  study of a left leg and drapery from The Art Tribune, Right, Study of a woman

Two out of print books:
BRONZINO as Draughtsman. An introduction. With notes on his portraiture and tapestries.
Bronzino As Draughtsman: An Introduction

Some of his paintings:
 

Left, Andrea Doria as Neptune from mlahanas.de/poseidon/neptune, Right, Venus and Cupid from artcess
 

Left, Maria de Medici from ladysarafina, Right, St.Sebastian from LibArt

The Metropolitan Museum had a great page on  Bronzino and the mannerists: Mannerism: Bronzino (1503–1572) and his Contemporaries

BronzinoBronzino
Bronzino (English Ed.) Bronzino (English Ed.)
Bronzino's Chapel of Eleonora in the Palazzo Vecchio (California Studies in the History of Art) Bronzino's Chapel of Eleonora in the Palazzo Vecchio (California Studies in the History of Art)
Bronzino: Renaissance Painter as Poet Bronzino: Renaissance Painter as Poet
Pontormo, Bronzino, and the Medici: The Transformation of the Renaissance Portrait in Florence Pontormo, Bronzino, and the Medici: The Transformation of the Renaissance Portrait in Florence

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