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Portrait of a Young Girl with a Prayer Book

painting by Bronzino

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  • Il Bronzino: Portrait of a Young Man
    In Il Bronzino

    …with Her Son Giovanni and Portrait of a Young Girl with a Prayer Book (c. 1545) are preeminent examples of Mannerist portraiture: emotionally inexpressive, reserved, and noncommittal yet arrestingly elegant and decorative. Bronzino’s great technical proficiency and his stylized rounding of sinuous anatomical forms are also notable. His many other…

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