Dates: 20 Jan 10 - 18 Apr 10
Categories: Old Master
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Agnolo Bronzino's (1503-72) Florentine career as a poet, a painter of altarpieces and portraits and as a decorator, providentially coincided with the reign of his art-loving patron Cosimo I de' Medici (1519-74), Duke of Florence from 1532 and, from 1537, Grand Duke of Tuscany, who not only appointed him court artist, but was also responsible for promoting the careers of such luminaries as Vasari, Cellini and Pontormo (Bronzino's teacher and adoptive father), as well as for the construction of the Uffizi Palace, the Boboli Gardens and the completion of the Pitti Palace.
This exhibition celebrates Bronzino's work as a draughtsman, showing around 60 drawings, the lion's share of his drawn oeuvre, that consists of preparatory works (shown here, compositional study for a portrait of a seated man, around 1535), presentation drawings and life studies.
Most of the first are in black (less often red) chalk; for the second he combined pen and wash with colour effects, and the third are mainly in black chalk, sometimes on coloured paper.
All his works exhibit his high maniera style—a polished and elegant manual and linear performance, using shadings of light and contours that make frequent reference to classical models. This exhibition is a collaboration with the Gabinetto Disgeni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence, and is sponsored by the Gail and Parker Gilbert Fund, with additional support of Dinah Seiver and Thomas E. Foster.
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