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Portrait of a Young Man with a Book  1540

by Agnolo Bronzino

The sitter of this arresting portrait remains unknown, but he was part of Bronzino’s close circle of literary friends in Florence and probably holds a book of poetry. The artist was himself a poet, delighting as much in the beauty of language as he did in the witty and fanciful details of his paintings. Here, viewers would have appreciated the carved grotesque heads on the...
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Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art