✨ Agnolo Bronzino was an Italian Mannerist painter from Florence. He was also the artist of the powerful Medici family, who ruled Florence at the time.
Today we present the portrait of the little Bianca, Bia, who was the daughter of Cosimo, born before his marriage in 1539.
In 1560, Francesco Maria II della Rovere’s ambassador to Tuscany, Simone Fortuna wrote in a letter that Cosimo “in his first years as duke, had, by a noblewoman of Florence, a girl who was baptized in the name of His Illustrious Excellence, and called Bia. And the Lady Duchess, finding her in her home, was raising the girl lovingly, as she was born to her husband before she became his wife.”
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Bia de’ Medici by Agnolo Bronzino 1542-1545
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