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BRONZINO, Agnolo: Portrait of a Woman

🖼 Portrait of a Woman, c. 1550
Oil on wood
60 × 49 cm
Philadelphia, USA

Jewel-toned silks and precise brushwork render this aristocratic woman in three-quarter view, her gaze distant and composed. Bronzino's psychological coolness and flawless technique epitomize Mannerist portraiture's intellectual elegance and the sitter's elevated social status.

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E. H. Gombrich
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