Alessandro de' Medici

1. Probably Cosimo I de’ Medici (d. 1574), Florence [it is almost certainly identical with the study described in Le vite de’ più eccellenti pittori, scultori e architettori scritte da Giorgio Vasari, ed. Gaetano Milanesi, vol. 6, Florence, 1881, p. 278]. William Ward (d. 1885), 1st Earl of Dudley, London, by 1854 [described by Waagen 1854, as by Pontormo]; his son William Humble Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley, sold Christie’s, London, June 25, 1892, no. 46, as Giovanni Bellini for £180, to Durand-Ruel, acting on behalf of Martin A. Ryerson [annotated catalogue , Ryerson Library, and letter from Durand-Ruel to Ryerson, June 25, 1892 in AIC Archives]; Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, from 1892; on loan to the Art Institute from 1930; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Toronto, Art Gallery of Toronto, Italian Old Masters and German Primitives, 1931, no. 26, as Bronzino.
• Muskegon, Michigan, Hackley Art Gallery, Italian Paintings in the Loan Collection from Mr. Martin A. Ryerson, M. Knoedler and Company, E. and A. Silberman, 1932, no. 6, as Bronzino.
• Milwaukee Art Museum, The Detective’s Eve: Investigating the Old Masters, January 19-March 19, 1989, no. 33.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, Bill Viola: A 25-Year Survey, October 16, 1999 – January 9, 2000, included in the gallery that held Viola’s The Greeting for the Chicago venue.
• Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, L’Ombra del genio: Michelangelo e l’arte a Firenze, 1537-1631, 2002; traveled to Art Institute of Chicago and Detroit Institute of Arts as The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence, no. 34.
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pontormo, Bronzino and the Medici: The Transformation of the Renaissance Portrait in Florence, 2004, cat. 25.
• Frankfurt, Städel Museum, Maniera: Pontormo, Bronzino and Medici Florence, 2016, no. 65.

• Gustav Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, vol. 2, London, 1854, p. 232.
• G. Frizzoni, La Gallerie Morelli in Bergamo, Bergamo, 1892, p. 19.
• A. McComb, Agnolo Bronzino: His Life and Works, Cambridge, Mass., 1928, pp, 44, 137.
• William R. Valentiner, Paintings in the Collection of Martin A. Ryerson, unpub. MS [1932], Archives, Art Institute of Chicago, n. pg.
• Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford, 1932, p. 114.
• Bernard Berenson, Pitture italiane de Rinascimento, Milan, 1936, p. 98.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago. A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, Chicago, 1961, p. 226.
• Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central and North Italian Schools, vol. 1, London, 1968, p. 41.
• Karla Langedijk, The Portraits of the Medici, 15th to 18th Centuries, vol. 1, Florence, 1981, pp. 84, 86.
• Ellis Waterhouse, “Earlier Paintings in the Earlier Years of the Art Institute: The Role of the Private Collector,” Museum Studies 10 (1983), pp. 84-5.
• Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago. A Catalogue of the Collection, Chicago, 1993, pp. 197-202, ill.
• Philippe Costamagna, Pontormo, Milan, 1994, pp. 87, 221-3, no. 71, ill. p. 82.

Christ before Pilate

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Christ as Salvator Mundi with Lamb

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The Battle around the Shield and Lance

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Diana and Actaeon

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Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist

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Portrait of a Noblewoman Dressed in Mourning

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Annunciation to the Shepherds

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Sacrifice to Priapus, the smaller plate

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