Don Giovanni de’Medici
Artist: Agnolo Bronzino (Italian, 1503-1572)
Date: about 1551
Dimensions:
H: 18 1/8 in. (46 cm); W: 11 13/16 in. (30 cm)
Medium: Oil on wood panel
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Gift of William E. Levis
Object number: 1951.305
Label Text:Don Giovanni (1543-1562) was the third of the five sons of Grand Duke Cosimo I de’Medici of Florence and his Spanish wife Eleonora da Toledo. Destined by his parents for a career in the Church at the young age of seven, he was sent to the Pope to be admitted to the clergy when he was eight (his probable age in this portrait). At the age of 17 he was made a Cardinal. He died two years later of a fever.
In 1551, Agnolo Bronzino executed a series of portraits of the Medici children. Bronzino was court painter to Cosimo, and his workshop produced many copies of his portraits of the Grand Duke and his family for European rulers and other important dignitaries. Bronzino’s dignified and psychologically remote portraits set the fashion for court portraiture for the next century.
In 1551, Agnolo Bronzino executed a series of portraits of the Medici children. Bronzino was court painter to Cosimo, and his workshop produced many copies of his portraits of the Grand Duke and his family for European rulers and other important dignitaries. Bronzino’s dignified and psychologically remote portraits set the fashion for court portraiture for the next century.
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