BEJEWELLED AND brocaded, she gazes serenely at the viewer. Her complexion is as smooth and creamy as a split almond; her cheeks are the colour of ripe peaches. The painting’s deep blue background ...
(left) Cosimo I de''Medici in armor by Agnolo Bronzini c1545 Art Gallery of NSW and (right) Composite XRF scan map showing mercury (red) and iron (green). Credit: Australia's Nuclear Science and ...
WHETHER provoked by his red hair or ruddy cheeks, the nickname Bronzino has stuck to Agnolo di Cosimo, an Italian Renaissance painter (1503-72). Though he started out as the son of a butcher, Bronzino ...
In Florence, a new art exhibition opening today at Palazzo Strozzi hopes to acquaint the general public with an Italian master who has remained relatively unknown and decidedly uncelebrated for almost ...