Alessandro de’ Medici

Artwork: Alessandro de’ Medici

Painted by: School of Bronzino

Created: c. 1550

Medium: Oil on limewood panel

Dimensions: 47 x 35 cm (without frame)

Location: V&A Museum, London, Uk

Photography by @1001before_you_die_collection

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“Jacopo Carucci (1494-1556) was born in Empoli and probably studied in Florence with Leonardo da Vinci in 1508 (Vasari), then with Piero Di Cosimo, and by 1510 with Mariotto Albertinelli. Around 1512 he was an assistant of Andrea del Sarto.

Pontormo enjoyed the protection of the Medici family throughout his career but, unlike Agnolo Bronzino and Giorgio Vasari, did not become court painter. His subjective portrait style did not lend itself to the state portrait. He produced few mythological works and portraits after 1540 devoted himself almost exclusively to religious subjects. Pontormo was the master of Agnolo Bronzino, the most important painter of the late Florentine mannerism.

This painting is a mid-16h century copy of sketch executed by Jacopo Pontormo in 1534-35 in preparation of an official state portrait of Alessandro de’ Medici, new Duke of Florence. It shows the young Duke in three-quarter profile, austerely dressed in black, set on a neutral dark background, his gaze facing the beholder.” (V&A)

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