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BRONZINO, Agnolo: Portrait of a Young Girl with a Missal

🖼 Portrait of a Young Girl with a Missal, 1541-45
Oil on wood
58 × 46.5 cm
Florence, Italy

Soft, luminous skin glows against dark background as a young girl clutches a jeweled missal, her composed gaze meeting ours with aristocratic restraint. Bronzino's meticulous technique and cool palette exemplify Mannerist portraiture, capturing both devotion and social status in Renaissance Florence.

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