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BRONZINO, Agnolo: Portrait of Eleanora di Toledo

🖼 Portrait of Eleanora di Toledo, c. 1560
Oil on panel
86 × 65 cm
Washington, United States

Jeweled silks and cool precision define this portrait of a Florentine duchess, her rigid pose and frontal gaze asserting dynastic power. Bronzino's meticulous technique captures wealth and authority, establishing the aristocratic portrait as political statement during the Renaissance.

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