Agnolo di Cosimo - Bronzino lived all his life in Florence and was a painter for the Medici. Cosimo was a pioneer of the copied portrait sent as a diplomatic gift. His elegant and somewhat elongated figures always appear calm and somewhat reserved. Bronzino was a pupil first of Raffaellino del Garbo, and then of Pontormo, to whom he was apprenticed at 14. Bronzino first received Medici patronage in 1539, when he...