Bronzino

Bronzino paints cool, polished court portraits — porcelain skin, aloof expressions, and precise, enamel-smooth surfaces. Elegant, icy, and emotionally distant.

Bronzino (1503–1572) was a painter from Italy, associated with Mannerism.

A late-Renaissance style of elongated figures, complex spiralling poses, and unnatural colour, prizing elegance and tension over calm harmony. Mannerism →