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        4. Agnolo Bronzino, born Agnolo di Cosimo but most commonly referred to as Bronzino, was a stand-out artist of the second-wave of Italian Mannerism in the middle.
        5. Bronzino is a giant amongst Mannerists; an elegant and serene Master of portraiture whose painting embodied the genteel beliefs and ideals of the Medici dukes.

          6. Agnolo Bronzino

          Agnolo Bronzino of Florence, Italy, known as Il Bronzino, was a Mannerist painter. Mixing styles of the late High Renaissance into the early Baroque period, Mannerists often depicted their subjects in unnatural forms.

          Bronzino’s works have been described as “icy” portraits that put an abyss between the subject and the viewer.

          Bronzino’s real name was Agnolo di Cosimo, and the nickname Bronzino may be attributed to the dark complexions of the subjects in his portraits.

          He was born in Monticello, just outside Florence and spent most of his life in Florence, rarely leaving the city.

          Bronzino, Pontormo's close follower, had none of his master's talent as a decorator, but happily much of his power as a portrait-painter.

          After studying with Raffaellino del Garbo, an early Florentine Renaissance painter, Bronzino became a student of Jacopo Pontormo, a founder of the Florentine Mannerist style. It was under Pontormo, that Bronzino was greatly influenced, but was also one of the few students to endure studies under the difficult Andrea del Sarto.

          It was under both Pontormo and Sarto that Il Bronzino was influ