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BRONZINO, Agnolo: Portrait of a Lady in Green

🖼 Portrait of a Lady in Green, 1530-32
Oil on panel
77 × 66 cm
Windsor, United Kingdom

Emerald silk drapes across the figure's shoulders, rendered with luminous precision against a cool, austere background. Bronzino's sitter embodies Mannerist elegance through her composed gesture and jeweled ornaments, exemplifying sixteenth-century Florentine court portraiture's psychological restraint and technical virtuosity.

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