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Portrait of a Young Man, Possibly Pierino da Vinci
Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano) Italian
Not on view
Turning to look at the viewer and holding an open book on the table before him, this young man recalls the elegant sitters of Bronzino’s earlier literary portraits in this gallery. The fragmentary statue of Bacchus with a satyr may identify him as the sculptor Pierino da Vinci, Leonardo da Vinci’s nephew, who made his reputation with such a work (now lost). In the 1540s, the teenage Pierino was a pupil of Bronzino’s friend Niccolò Tribolo, assisting with commissions for the Medici. He was also a friend of Luca Martini, whose carved portrait by Pierino is in this gallery.
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