Resumen de Spigolature sul Bronzino (e sul Pontormo)
This article studies stylistic evolution in a group of works by Bronzino and Pontormo, some of them exhibited at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence in 2010-2011 ("Bronzino pittore e poeta alla corte dei Medici). With respect to the catalogue of that exhibition, a different attribution is proposed for the "Evangelist" roundels in Santa Felicita, and new dating is offered for the Saint Sebastian in the Museo Thyssen, Madrid, the "Saint John the Baptist" in the Borghese Gallery, Rome, and the "Portrait of Bartolomeo Panciatichi" in the Uffizi. As regards the relationship between Bronzino and Pontormo, the author once again discusses the attribution of a "Virgin and Child" formerly given to the latter but now returned to Bronzino. Two further attributions to Pontormo are suggested, for a panel with the story of Marcus Curtius and an unpublished "Virgin and Child with Cherubs". A concluding discussion addresses the attribution to Francesco Salviati of the "Portrait of a Man" in the Getty Museum, Los Angeles, with a proposal for the traditional authorship of Bronzino.
