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mannerism
mannerism a style in art and architecture (c.1520-1600), originating in Italy as a reaction against the equilibrium of form and proportions characteristic of the High Renaissance. In Florence, Pontormo and Bronzino, and in Rome, Il Rosso, Parmigianino, and Beccafumi created elegant figures elongate... Read more
Italian art
Italian art works of art produced in the geographic region that now constitutes the nation of Italy. Italian art has engendered great public interest and involvement, resulting in the consistent production of monumental and spectacular works. In addition, Italian art has nearly always been closely ... Read more
portraiture
portraiture the art of representing the physical or psychological likeness of a real or imaginary individual. The principal portrait media are painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography. From earliest times the portrait has been considered a means to immortality. Many cultures have attributed ma... Read more
Otto Nicolai
Otto Nicolai , 1810-49, German composer. His opera Il Templario (1840), after Scott's Ivanhoe, was successful, but his masterpiece was the comic opera The Merry Wives of Windsor (1849). He founded (1842) the Philharmonic Concerts, Vienna, for the purpose of presenting adequate performances of ... Read more
Il Sodoma
Il Sodoma , c.1477-1549, Sienese painter, whose real name was Giovanni Antonio Bazzi. Born in Vercelli, Piedmont, he went to Rome c.1508. Commissioned by Pope Julius II, he painted frescoes in the Camera della Segnatura in the Vatican. Raphael's frescoes afterward replaced most of his work there. Fo... Read more
Kim Il Sung
Kim Il Sung , 1912-94, North Korean political leader, chief of state of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (1948-94); originally named Kim Sung Chu. While fighting Japanese occupation forces in the 1930s, he adopted the name Kim Il Sung after a famous Korean guerrilla leader of the early 20th... Read more
trompe-l'œil
trompe-l'œil (Fr.: ‘deceives the eye’). Term applied to a painting (or a detail of one) that is intended to deceive the spectator (if only briefly) into thinking that it is a real object rather than a two-dimensional representation of it. Such virtuoso displays of skill often hav... Read more
Ugo Betti
Ugo Betti , 1892-1953, Italian dramatist and poet. He was a judge by profession. His earliest published works were two volumes of poetry (1922 and 1932), but he is remembered for his dramas. He wrote 27 plays. Among the most notable were La padrona [the mistress] (1927), Frano allo scalo nord [l... Read more
Il Rosso
Il Rosso , 1495-1540, Italian painter, one of the founders of mannerism , b. Florence. His real name was Giovan Battista di Iacopo di Gasparre. Influences of Andrea del Sarto and Pontormo are evident in his first work, The Assumption (the Annunziata, Florence), a painting in which there is alread... Read more
Bernardo Strozzi
Bernardo Strozzi , 1581-1644, Italian painter, b. Genoa. He is considered one of the greatest of the generation of early 17th-century Italian painters who made the transition from the mannerist to the baroque style. In 1598, Strozzi became a Capuchin monk, thus earning the names "Il Cappucino" a... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to " Il Bronzino"

Il Bronzino
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...name was Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano. Bronzino was a pupil and adopted son of Jacopo...he became court painter to Cosimo I. Bronzino's sophisticated portraits are cold, unemotionally...arrogance popular in the mannerist period. Bronzino's work had an influence on court portraiture... Read more
mannerism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...of the High Renaissance. In Florence, Pontormo and Bronzino, and in Rome, Il Rosso, Parmigianino, and Beccafumi created elegant...The style was carried into France by Primaticcio, Il Rosso, Niccolò dell'Abbate, and Cellini. It flourished... Read more
Clouet, Fran ç ois (c. 1515/20 – 1572)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...portrait-drawings. This suggests that by then Clouet may have become familiar with portraits by Titian (born Tiziano Vecelli) and Il Bronzino (born Agnold di Cosimo), perhaps during a trip to Italy. The Lady in the Bath (National Gallery of Art, Washington... Read more
Mannerism
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...recognized that anticlassicism could not explain the works of the second generation of artists, like Francesco Salviati, Il Bronzino, and Vasari. As a result of a proposal by Luisa Beccherucci calling for refinement of the definition of the style, a... Read more

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Laura Battiferra and her Literary Circle: An Anthology.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...degli Ammannati, so famously portrayed by Bronzino in strangely elongated profile in the portrait...social writer, her first volume of poetry, Il primo libro delle opere toscane...volgarizzamenti della Scrittura, 1471-1605 (Bologna: Il Mulino, 1997), p. 305). The uncertain status... Read more
Painting in Late Medieval and Rennaisance Siena.(book by Diana Norman )(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...Beccafumi have largely remained in the shadow of Pontormo and Bronzino in popular appeal. This new study by Diana Norman considers...of the Vite in preparation for his second edition, in which Il Sodoma and Beccafumi were included for the first time. It is... Read more
The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...500 subject entries, Cinema, Cookery books (from Platina to Il ghiottone errante), Fotoromanzi, Fumetti, etc. (I failed to...difficulty when artists are also writers; justice is done to Bronzino for his 'considerable corpus of poetry', and the entry on Michelangelo... Read more
Self-Portraits with a Twist.(teaching children painting)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Arts & Activities; 4/1/2001; ; 638 words ; ...taught to a kindergarten class, it would certainly work well in any elementary grade. VISUALS USED AS INSPIRATION * Il Bronzino, Portrait of Eleanor of Toledo and Her Son. * Nicholas Hilliard, Queen Elizabeth I. * Hans Holbein, Edward VI as a Child... Read more