Accessible Art History
Podcast Episode 92: Bronzino's Portrait of a Young Man

Welcome back to Accessible Art History: The Podcast! In this episode of Metropolitan Masterpieces, I'm discussing Bronzino's Portrait of a Young Man. It is a stunning painting that helps to define the Mannerist period.
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Portrait of a Young Man, c. 1540
Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo)
Public Domain via the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Portrait of Bronzino
Alessandro Allori
CC 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Cosimo I de Medici, Duke of Florence
Bronzino
Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Eleanora of Toledo with her son Giovanni
c. 1545
Bronzino Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Sources
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/zino/hd_zino.htm
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/port/hd_port.htm
apollo-magazine.com/horrible-art-histories-grotesque/
https://smarthistory.org/rediscovery-domus-aurea-renaissance-grotesque/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronzino
https://www.nga.gov/features/slideshows/mannerism.html
https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/collection-areas/european-paintings
https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/collection-areas/european-paintings/skylights-project