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portrait of a youn man
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Metropolitan museum of art Description
Portrait of a Young Man
This portrait, among Bronzino's most arresting was painted in the 1530s. The model is not known, but he must have been a good friend of Bronzino's close literary friends, which included the historian Benedetto Varchi and the poet Laura Battiferri. Bronzino composed verses in the style of Petrarch, and some of the stylish and funny conceits in this painting, the gruesome heads on the table and chair and the mask like face formed by the youth's breathes would have been much appreciated in literary groups.
Agnolo Bronzino was the leading painter of the Florentine School in the middle of the sixteenth century. A Mannerist painter, Bronzino was a
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