Bronzino - Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano (1503-1572) / Il Bronzino was a Florentine Mannerist painter. He was mainly a portraitist but also painted many religious subjects, and a few allegorical subjects, which include what is probably his best known work, Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time, now in London. He trained with Pontormo. the leading Florentine painter of the first generation of Mannerism, and his style was greatly influenced by him, but his elegante and somewhat elongated figures always appear calm and somewhat reserved.