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Bronzino Forever

From 24 September 2010 to January 23, 2011 is staged at the Palazzo Strozzi exhibition Bronzino. Painter and poet at the court of the Medici, the first monographic tribute to Agnolo di Cosimo (Florence, 1503-1572), known as Bronzino for the bronze color of her hair, one of the greatest portrait painters of the sixteenth century Italian virtuoso creator of forms in the middle between naturalism and abstraction achieved by means of crystal colors of extraordinary purity.


The exhibition, curated by Antonio Natali, director of the Uffizi Gallery and Carlo Falciani, is sponsored and organized by Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Soprintendenza PSAE and the State Museums of Florence, with the support of the Municipality of Florence, Florence Province, Room of Commerce of Florence, Palazzo Strozzi and Association Partners with the support of Regione Toscana.

More than ninety works on display for most of the artist plus some masterpieces of his beloved master Pontormo alongside sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini, tribulations, Baccio Bandinelli, Pierino da Vinci, who had friendly relations with Bronzino as documented sonnets of Petrarch obsequious in part, some irreverent and grotesque the example of Francesco Berni. To complement the exhibition works by Alessandro Allori, his favorite pupil.

protagonist of Florentine art of the '500, Bronzino (a humble son of a butcher in the neighborhood of Monticelli in Florence), enjoyed respect and kindness to court with Cosimo I and Eleonora of Toledo and at those wealthy Florentine families involved in the doctrines heterodox reforms, such as spouses Panciatichi, Bartholomew and Lucrezia, tried in 1552, which he portrayed in two beautiful panels in the Uffizi.

icon shows the beautiful Eleonora di Toledo, wife of Cosimo I, the artist portrayed in the summer of 1545 with his fourth son John during a stay at the Villa Medici at Poggio a Caiano, a paradigm of stability of the Medici power and business del'industria Florentine silk, as if under the detailed preparation of the precious fabric bottom satin dress, gold brocade and black velvet, with large grounds at the center of the pomegranate, symbol of prosperity and fertility of the ducal family.

INFO: Tel.055 2645155; www.palazzostrozzi.org; time: every day: 9-20, Thursday: 9-23.