Duke Cosimo I de' Medici is shown as the mythological musician and poet Orpheus after having calmed Cerberus, the doglike guardian to Hades from which Orpheus wished to retrieve his …

Agnolo di Cosimo (Italian: [ˈaɲɲolo di ˈkɔːzimo]; 17 November 1503 – 23 November 1572), usually known as Bronzino (Italian: Il Bronzino [il bronˈdziːno]) or Agnolo Bronzino, [a] was an Italian Mannerist painter from Florence.

Duke Cosimo I de' Medici is shown as the mythological musician and poet Orpheus after having calmed Cerberus, the doglike guardian to Hades from which Orpheus wished to retrieve his wife,...

2021年6月23日 · Bronzino ’s Cosimo I de’ Medici as Orpheus (1537–39), for instance, casts the duke as the mythological musician Orpheus, aligning “him with forces beyond the world of mere mortals,” as the...

"It is a double-layered image in which Cosimo is at once himself and Orpheus. . . The Duke is thus linked to a new Orpheus, echoing the political theme of a Medici ruler as a Florentine peacemaker that Bandinelli had introduced in the previous generation in his marble Orpheus ..."

The Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici is a painting by the Italian artist Agnolo di Cosimo, known as Bronzino, finished in 1545. In his position as court painter for the Medici, Bronzino was author of several portraits of Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici.

2022年4月12日 · Let’s look at a particularly striking example of an artist re-working a painting that was already either completed or nearly so: Cosimo I de’ Medici as Orpheus by Agnolo Bronzino.

In this painting Orpheus's features resemble those of the young Duke Cosimo as depicted by Bronzino in official portraits a few years later. The nude Orpheus, poet and musician of Greek mythology, is shown resting the bow of his viol after having calmed Cerberus, the three-headed hound of the underworld.

2021年5月19日 · The iconography of Bronzino’s sexually explicit Portrait of Cosimo I de’ Medici as Orpheus has long challenged scholars, especially since scientific analysis revealed below the portrait’s surface a fully conceived underpainting depicting …

Inspired by a true story, Invincible recounts the last 48 hours in the life of Marc-Antoine Bernier, a 14-year-old boy on a desperate quest for freedom. ‘Portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici as Orpheus’ was created in c.1538 by Agnolo Bronzino in Mannerism (Late Renaissance) style.