The Portrait of a Young Man with a Book is a painting by Agnolo Bronzino created in the 1530s, commissioned by the powerful Florentine Medici family for whom Bronzino served as court artist under Cosimo I de' Medici, becoming the leading portrait painter in Florence. It depicts a young man with his fingers placed inside a book, and the sitter's identity remains uncertain despite many proposed interpretations; the painting has been held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1929.
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Year CreatedDated only to the 1530s (some sources say 1530 to 1540); 1530 marks the start of that decade. LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1 Commissioned By Connections
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Renaissance-era portrait painting; specific attribution not confirmed by this lane, In Form only (honest gap, see file header).
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1. Portrait of a Young Man with a Book (Bronzino), Wikipedia
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The Portrait of a Young Man with a Book is a painting by Agnolo Bronzino created in the 1530s.
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it entered the collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1929.
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The painting was commissioned by the powerful Florentine family, the Medici.
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The Portrait of a Young Man with a Book is a painting by Agnolo Bronzino created in the 1530s, commissioned by the powerful Florentine Medici family for whom Bronzino served as court artist under Cosimo I de' Medici, becoming the leading portrait painter in Florence.
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