Riddle me this. Bronzino’s allegorical painting is one of the most disturbing and curious in all of art history.
Bronzino
Mother and son gaze out with an aristocratic aloofness, yet they lack an inner life. Is all that brocade a shell?
Bronzino, Portrait of Eleonora di Toledo with ...
The hard, porcelain-like faces of Bronzino’s young men aren’t the only masks in these paintings.
Bronzino and the Mannerist Portrait
Mother and son gaze out with an aristocratic aloofness, yet they lack an inner life. Is all that brocade a shell?