Bartolomeo and Lucrezia

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Portrait of Bartolomeo Panciatichi, 1540
Portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi, 1545
By Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo)
Uffizi Gallery
Piazzale degli Uffizi
Florence, January 2023

“Lucrezia di Sigismondo Pucci was the wife of Bartolomeo Panciatichi, a Florentine humanist and politician, also portrayed by Bronzino in another Uffizi portrait. Giorgio Vasari describes the two portraits as: ‘so natural that they seem truly living’. The show of refined garments and jewelry was intended not only to underline the élite position of the woman, but also aspects of her personality through a complex symbology, including the words ‘Amour dure sans fin’ on the golden necklace, a reference to a love treatise written for the Grand Duke of Florence, Cosimo I de' Medici, in 1547.” (Portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi, Wikipedia)