\paperw3795 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 \b BRONZINO, Angelo di Cosimo called \b0 Italian painter\par
(Florence 1503 - 1572)\par
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A pupil of \b \cf4 \ATXht1094 Pontormo
\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 , with whom he collaborated initially, he went on to assume the role of court painter to the Medici. Thus he became the vehicle used by the duke to convey his aspirations to absolute power, to which he gave expression in the cycle of fre
scoes for the chapel of Eleonora of Toledo in Palazzo Vecchio and in a series of stately portraits of members of the Medici family. After a stay in Rome, he started to paint religious works, which seem to show the signs of a moral crisis sparked off by t
