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Work Record
Class [controlled]:
• paintings • European art
*Work
Type [link]:
• painting
*Title: Portrait
of a Young Man
*Creator
Display: Agnolo Bronzino (Italian,
1503-1572)
*Role
[link]: painter [link]: Bronzino,
Agnolo
*Creation
Date Display: 1530s [controlled]:
• Earliest:
1530 • Latest: 1539
*Subject
[links]:
• portrait • figure •
male • Medici court • literature
Style [link]:
Mannerist
Culture [link]: Italian
*Current
Location Display [link]: Metropolitan
Museum of Art (New York, New York, United States)
• ID:
29.100.16
*Measurements:
95.6 x 74.9 cm (37 5/8 x 29 1/2 inches)
[controlled]: • Value: 95.6
Unit: cm
Type: height
| • Value: 74.9
Unit: cm
Type: width
*Materials
and Techniques: oil on panel
Material [links]:
• oil paint • panel (wood) Technique
[links]: • painting
Description: The
style is typical of Medicean Florence, with the
self-possessed aloofness of the sitter and the
austere elegance of the interior. The attributes
would suggest that the sitter is a cultivated
member of society and has literary interests.
Description Source
[link]: Hibbard,
Howard. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New
York: Harrison House, 1986.
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