Agnolo Bronzino (1503 - 1572)

Agnolo Bronzino

Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano, also Agnolo Tori, called Bronzino was an Italian painter, an important representative of Mannerism.

Bronzino was a painter of frescoes, altarpieces, devotional paintings and allegorical and mythological scenes. However, he excelled above all as an outstanding portrait painter. As in the case of Raphael, his works could be disseminated through the new possibilities of printmaking.