Agnolo bronzino biography for kids

Not to be confused with Branzino.

Agnolo di Cosimo (Italian: [ˈaɲɲolo di ˈkɔːzimo]; 17 November  – 23 November ), usually known as Bronzino (Italian: Il Bronzino[il bronˈdziːno]) or Agnolo Bronzino, was an ItalianMannerist painter from Florence.

Agnolo bronzino biography for kids

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. –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,