Agnolo Bronzino | Court Painter to Cosimo I de' Medici

Eleonora di Toledo and Her Son, Bronzino c. 1545, Oil on panel, 115 x 96 cm Uffizi, Florence, Italy

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Bronzino was particularly interested in the female figure as evidenced by his religious and allegorical works rich with detail, symbolism and erotic content. Bronzino's nudes are pale, elegant, and elongated, and the artist appears to be detached from his subject. Of particular note is his portrait of Eleanora di Toledo, Cosimo's wife, whom Bronzino depicts sumptuously dressed with an aristocratic demeanor of arrogance that typifies his work.

Brenda Harness, Art Historian