zi, 172 6

AGNOLO BRONZINO
Christ in Limbo
Florence: Uffizi, 1271 8

ALESSANDRO ALLORI
Giuliano de' Medici
Florence: Uffizi, 193 12

BENVENUTO CELLINI
Perseus
Florence: Loggia de' Lanzi 22

GIOVANNI BOLOGNA
Fountain of Neptune
Bologna 24

GIOVANNI BOLOGNA
Mercury
Florence: Museo Nazionale 26

VINCENZIO DANTI
The Brazen Serpent
Florence: Museo Nazionale 28

VINCENZIO DANTI
Bronze Relief
Florence: Museo Nazionale 30

GIORGIO VASARI
Lorenzo the Magnificent and the Ambassadors
Florence: Palazzo Vecchio 208

GIORGIO VASARI
Fresco in the Hall of Lorenzo the Magnificent
Florence: Palazzo Vecchio 214

OF THE ACADEMICIANS OF DESIGN, PAINTERS, SCULPTORS, AND ARCHITECTS, AND
OF THEIR WORKS, AND FIRST OF BRONZINO

Having written hitherto of the lives and works of the most excellent
painters, sculptors, and architects, from Cimabue down to the present
day, who have passed to a better life, and having spoken with the
opportunities that came to me of many still living, it now remains that
I say something of the craftsmen of our Academy of Florence, of whom up
to this point I have not had occasion to speak at sufficient length. And
beginning with the oldest and most important, I shall speak first of
Agnolo, called Bronzino, a Florentine painter truly most rare and worthy
of all praise.

Agnolo, then, having been many years with Pontormo, as has been told,
caught his manner so well, and so imitated his works, that their
pictures have been taken very often one for the other, so similar they
were for a time. And certainly it is a marvel how Bronzino learned the
manner of Pontormo so well, for the reason that Jacopo was rather
strange and shy than otherwise even with his dearest disciples, being
such that he would never let anyone see his works save when completely
finished. But notwithstanding this, so great were the patience and
lovingness of Agnolo towar