Resumen de A New Portrait Drawing by Bronzino
The writer examines a newly discovered portrait drawing by Agnolo Bronzino. The drawing is clearly a study for the artist's Portrait of Stefano Colonna in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica di Palazzo Barberini, Rome. Dated 1546 and executed in Bronzino's favorite medium of black chalk, it is a crisp and finely modulated study of the subject's face. As is the case with the other two preparatory drawings by the artist for known painted portraits, both the facial expression and the direction of the sitter's gaze are faithfully recorded in the related painting, with some minor differences between the two works. Such head studies show that Bronzino began by sketching a firsthand likeness of the sitter and then executed the remainder of the portrait in the studio. The writer goes on to speculate on the circumstances of the work's commission.
