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The art label reads: “This unknown sitter seems to almost lovingly hold an unidentified statuette, perhaps representing Venus or an allegorical figure of Fame. Did the young man make the work himself, or is he an art lover, proudly showing a piece from his collection?”
When I came across mid-16th-century Florentine painter Bronzino’s portrait of a ‘young man’ holding a statuette, I felt like I was looking into a mirror reflecting twinkdom.
My dad sensed these similarities too when he saw me struck by this piece, and forced me to stand in front to make this photograph.
The lack of information about the person in this portrait parallels with Bronzino’s court paintings under Medici dukes and the artist’s Mannerist style: “emotionally inexpressive, reserved, and noncommittal yet arrestingly elegant and decorative,” as Britannica explains it.
The artist was influenced partly by Michaelangelo and late works by Raphael.