The Holy Family With Saint John by Bronzino

Exhibition dates: 24th September 2010 – 23rd January 2011

Agnolo di Cosimo named Bronzino (Monticelli, Florence 1503 – Florence 1572)
Holy Family with St Anne and St John
Nd
Oil on panel
124.5 x 99.5 cm
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie, inv. n. 183

Despite the sensitivity of the religious paintings it is the portraits of strong notwithstanding somehow vulnerable women that motion me most in this posting. The paintings are "frequently read every bit static, elegant, and fashionable exemplars of unemotional haughtiness and assurance." (Wikipedia)

I don't agree. Of course they accept the trappings of the rich and powerful, the knowledgeable books at hand, the elongated Mannerist hands, the lush colours and particular of their pleated robes falling from their shoulders similar liquid opulence (imagine the shock of these colours in 1530!) merely there is something in their open stare that seems to reach across fourth dimension to tap me on the shoulder and say yes, I can still see into your soul every bit you can into mine. Incredibly moving this work of genius.

Marcus

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Many thankx to the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence for allowing me to publish the photographs of the paintings in the posting. Please click on photographs for a larger version of the image.

Agnolo di Cosimo namedBronzino (Monticelli, Florence 1503 – Florence 1572)
Holy Family with St John (Panciatichi Madonna)
c. 1540
Oil on panel
116.5 ten 89.v cm
Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, Inv. 1890 due north. 8377

Agnolo di Cosimo named Bronzino and Alessandro Allori (Bronzino (Monticelli, Florence 1503) Allori (Florence 1535) – Bronzino (Florence 1572) Allori (Florence 1607))
Holy Family with St John
c. 1555-1559
Tempera on panel
117 x 99 cm
Moscow, Land Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Inv.2699

Agnolo di Cosimo named Bronzino (Monticelli,Florence 1503 – Florence 1572 )
Portrait of Eleonora of Toledo with her son Giovanni
c. 1545
Oil on panel
115 x 96 cm
Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, Inv. 1890 northward. 748

Agnolo di Cosimo, known as Bronzino (1503-1572), was one of the greatest artists in the history of Italian painting. Court artist to Cosimo I de' Medici (1519-1574), his work embodied the composure of the Mannerist style. Bronzino. Artist and Poet at the Court of the Medici, on view at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence from 24 September 2010 to 23 January 2011, will exist the very commencement exhibition devoted to his painted piece of work. Bronzino conveyed the elegance of the Medici courtroom in his work with "naturalness" and, at the same time, ascetic beauty.

Florence is the perfect setting for a monographic exhibition on Bronzino. The son of a butcher, not only was he built-in and died hither, the city houses some of his greatest masterpieces, particularly in the Uffizi simply also in other museums and churches. This landmark exhibition, with loans from the globe'due south nigh important museums, presents presents 63 works attributed to Bronzino, and 10 to Bronzino and his workshop, along with others past his main Pontormo, with whom he had close ties throughout his life. Bronzino's paintings, with their sculptural definition, volition exist shown alongside sculptures past such 16th century masters as Benvenuto Cellini, Tribolo, Baccio Bandinelli and Pierino da Vinci, who were his friends and with whom he exchanged sonnets. The exhibition concludes with a number of works by Alessandro Allori, his favourite pupil.

Most of these gem-like masterpieces have never been shown together. Alongside the paintings from the Uffizi, the exhibition volition include such works as The Adoration of the Shepherds and the Allegory of Venus, Cupid and Jealousy from the Szépmüvészeti Múzeum in Budapest, the Venus, Cupid and Satyr from the Galleria di Palazzo Colonna in Rome, the Portrait of a Beau with a Volume from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Holy Family with St Anne and St John in the versions in the Musée du Louvre in Paris and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, together with panel paintings from the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and from the National Gallery of Art, in Washington.

The exhibition will testify iii hitherto 'missing' works by Bronzino, two of which, while recorded and mentioned past Giorgio Vasari, were thought to have been lost: the Crucified Christ which he painted for Bartolomeo Panciatichi, and the St Cosmas, the correct-hand panel accompanying the Besançon altarpiece when it originally graced Eleonora da Toledo'southward chapel in Palazzo Vecchio. Their rediscovery sheds new light on Bronzino's work and on his ties with the heretical religious mood that permeated the Medici court earlier 1550. The third previously unknown movie is Christ Conveying the Cross ascribed to his later on years.

The exhibition, which has taken over four years to ready, is curated by Carlo Falciani and Antonio Natali, the foremost experts on Cinquecento painting who accept also contributed to the scholarly catalogue. The exhibition, in conjunction with Drawings of Bronzino at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (twenty January to eighteen Apr 2010), will play a central function in fostering a new estimation of this important artist. For those who enjoyed the New York show, this Florence exhibition is a must-see.

Press release from the Palazzo Strozzi website [Online[ Cited 17/01/2011 no longer available online

Agnolo di Cosimo named Bronzino (Monticelli,Florence 1503 – Florence 1572 )
Portrait of Guidubaldo II della Rovere
1531-1532
Oil on panel
114 10 86 cm
Florence, Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, inv. 1912 n. 149

Agnolo di Cosimo named Bronzino (Monticelli,Florence 1503 – Florence 1572 )
Portrait of Laura Battiferri
c. 1555-60
Oil on console
83 x 60 cm
Florence, Palazzo Vecchio, Collezione Loeser

Agnolo di Cosimo named Bronzino (Monticelli, Florence 1503 – Florence 1572 )
Portrait of Lorenzo Lenzi
1527
Oil on panel
90 10 71 cm
Milan, Civiche Raccolte Artistiche – Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco

Agnolo di Cosimo named Bronzino (Monticelli,Florence 1503 – Florence 1572 )
Portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi
1540
Oil on panel
101 ten 82.8 cm
Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi

Agnolo di Cosimo named Bronzino (Monticelli, Florence 1503 – Florence 1572 )
Portrait of a Women (Matteo Sofferoni's Daughter?)
c. 1530-1532
Oil on panel
76.half dozen ten 66.2 10 1.3 cm
London, Lent past Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth Two, RCIN 405754

Palazzo Strozzi
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Firenze (Florence), Italy
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Last access to the exhibition one 60 minutes before closing.

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