Portrait of Laura Battiferri

Agnolo Bronzino, 1552

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Portrait of Laura Battiferri, 1552 — Agnolo Bronzino,

Dimentions60 x 83cm
movements:Mannerism
mediums:Oil on Canvas
collection:Museo di Palazzo Vecchio
subjects:Portraits

This sober, formal portrait of the poet Laura Battiferri belies the intellectual flirtation between Battiferri and Bronzino. Read their correspondence in sonnets.

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