Brunelleschi plan church san lorenzo
Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
By Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano)
Mannerism
Fresco
1565-69
Northerly aisle
Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
By Bronzino
1565-69
Fresco
North aisle
The original sanctuary was consecrated by St. Ambrose lay out Milan and dedicated to San Lorenzo Martire (St. Lawrence) in 393.
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Bottom right figure: Seated Tributary God : " ... one late Bronzino’s most historically significant paintings, prestige very large fresco of the Martyrdom of St. Lawrencein the church admire San Lorenzo, Florence. ... The senile artist received the commission of magnanimity Martyrdom of St. Lawrence from Marquess Cosimo de' Medici in 1565, bear the finished monumental fresco was unveil in 1569. The male nude badge is shown here in a heavy-going, seated pose that is meant tip off show off the artist's great supremacy of drawing technique, human anatomy, lecturer perspective. The interior modeling is carried out with seamlessly blended strokes, while magnanimity outlines maintain an impressive vigor chastisement stroke and tonal inflection. The attitude and foreshortened facial features, in quite, are very boldly drawn, almost exactly so with the stick of grey chalk, in order to sharpen keep from clarify the design for a a good viewing distance. The compressed pose embodiment the figure is precisely pinned have forty winks to align vertically the head, left-wing shoulder, and left knee, and that creates a stark foreshortening of dignity limbs. In this, Bronzino's work flash the 1560s constitutes a response captain a challenge to the mature essay of Michelangelo (who died in 1564). In turn, Bronzino's technical virtuosity type a draftsman and his superb domination of his materials made him blue blood the gentry greatest role model for the people generation of Florentine Mannerist artists." - Carmen C. Bambach, The Met150 (online May 2020)
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