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BRONZINO, Agnolo: Portrait of a Man Holding a Statuette

🖼 Portrait of a Man Holding a Statuette, c. 1545
Oil on wood transferred to canvas
99 × 79 cm
Paris, France

Rendered in cool tones, a elegantly dressed man clutches a classical statuette, his gaze penetrating and composed. The juxtaposition of living subject and idealized sculpture exemplifies Mannerism's intellectual sophistication and Renaissance humanists' veneration of antiquity.

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