Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Portrait of a Young Man as Saint Sebastian
Image View:
Detail, head and shoulder
Creator:
Agnolo Bronzino (Italian painter, 1503-1572)
Location:
repository: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, Madrid, Spain) Inv. no. 64 (1985.2)
Location Note:
Paseo del Prado, 8
GPS:
40.416111-3.695
Date:
ca. 1533 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style); Sixteenth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on panel
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
87 cm (height) x 76.5 cm (width)
Subjects:
portrait; saints; Sebastian, Saint
Description:
The painting has been dated 1533, at a time when Bronzino was defining his own artistic personality following his assimilation of Pontormo’s teachings. The attribution to Bronzino was made by relating it to an early work by Bronzino on which he collaborated with Pontormo: four tondi depicting the Evangelists painted for the funerary chapel of Ludovico Capponi in Santa Felicità in Florence. A drawing by Bronzino of Matthew shows the same pose and drapery. Brock suggested that the painting was an allegorical portrait. (Source: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum [website]; https://www.museothy ssen.org/en/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-BRONZINO-TBM-SS- A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Portrait of a Young Man as Saint Sebastian