Agnolo di Cosimo, called Bronzino (1503-1572)

• Was an Italian painter.
• 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.
• Bronzino was born in Florence, the son of a butcher.
• According to his contemporary Vasari, Bronzino was a pupil first of Raffaellino del Garbo, and then of Pontormo, to whom he was apprenticed at 14.
• Towards the end of his life, Bronzino took a prominent part in the activities of the Florentine Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, of which he was a founding member in 1563.
• The painter Alessandro Allori was his favourite pupil, and Bronzino was living in the Allori family house at the time of his death in Florence in 1572
• The displayed painting is a crop from Agnolo di Cosimo called Bronzino, Pygmalion and Galatea, 1529-1530.
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