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About the book >.>.> It is difficult to think of a painter more Florentine than Bronzino. The exhibition “Bronzino. Artist and Poet at the Court of the Medici” is a landmark and the Palazzo Strozzi the per- fect setting for the first ever monographic exploration of Bronzino’s paintings. The son of a butcher Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano better known by his nickname Bron- zino was born on 17 November 1503 in Monticelli then a suburb of Florence. After a short apprenticeship with Raffaellino del Garbo in 1517-8 he became the pupil of Jacopo da Pon- tormo (1494-1557) and by the early 1520s he had gained some independence as a collabo- rator in his workshop. The friendship and professional association between Pontormo and Bronzino who were actually relatively close in age continued for almost four decades. Pon- tormo’s impact on Bronzino lasted into the early 1530s. Bronzino is one of the greatest artists in the history of Italian painting and embodies the ripening of the ‘modern manner’ in the years in which Cosimo I de’ Medici ruled Florence. Bronzino conveyed the elegance of the Medici court with an austere beauty and ‘natural- ness’ yet at the same time-a kind of icy aristocratic splendour. A sophisticated court painter he was also a poet and a member of the Accademia Fiorentina. His poetry ranged from the academic style of Petrarch to ironic and satirical verses such as ‘Il piats where he describes an imaginary and symbolic journey through a giant’s entrails or ‘La cipolla’ a play- ful and erotic homage to the multi-layered complexity of female physical and metaphysical anatomy. (OS)