AN ALLEGORY WITH VENUS AND CUPID by Agnolo Bronzino: A Visual Riddle

Join me in The National Gallery in London as we dissect one of the most puzzling and disturbing paintings of all time: Agnolo Bronzino’s ‘Allegory with Venus and Cupid’ of c.1545.
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Filmed in London, England (by me).
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Research and transcript by me.
Music by Shanaya Serraino.
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My Bibliography:
Bosch, Lynette M. F., “Bronzino’s London ‘Allegory’: Love Versus Time,” Notes in the History of Art, 9/2 (1990), 30-35.
Brock, Maurice, Agnolo Bronzino, Bronzino, Flammarion, 2002.
Cheney, Iris, “Bronzino’s London ‘Allegory’: Venus, Cupid, Virtue, and Time,” Notes in the History of Art, 6/2 (1987) 12-18.
Conway, J. F., “Syphilis and Bronzino’s London Allegory,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 49 (1986) 250-255.
Healy, Margaret, “Bronzino’s London ‘Allegory’ and the Art of Syphilis,” Oxford Art Journal, 20/1 (1997), 3-11.
Hope, Charles, “Bronzino’s Allegory in the National Gallery,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 45 (1982) 239-243.
Levey, Michael, "Sacred and Profane Significance in Two Paintings by Bronzino", Studies in Re- naissance and Baroque Art Presented to Anthony Blunt on his Sixtieth Birthday, London, 1967, 30-33.
Mendelsohn, Leatice, “Saturnian Allusions in Bronzino’s London ‘Allegory’,” in: M. Ciarolella and A. Iannucci, eds. Saturn from Antiquity to the Renaissance, Ottawa, 1992, 101-50.
Panofsky, Erwin, Studies in Iconology, New York, 1939, and New York, 1962.
Plazzotta, Carol and Larry Keith, “Bronzino’s ‘Allegory’: New Evidence of the Artist’s Revisions,” The Burlington Magazine, 141/1151 (1999), 89-99.
Smith, Graham, “Jealousy, Pleasure and Pain in Agnolo Bronzino’s ‘Allegory of Venus and Cupid’,” Pantheon 39 (1981), 250-58.
Smithson, Robert, “Bronzino’s ‘Cosimo de’ Medici as Orpheus,” Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin 81 (1985), 17-27.
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IMAGES:
1. An Allegory with Venus and Cupid - www.nationalga...
2. The Judgment of Paris - www.museodelpr...
3. Venus and Cupid commons.wikime...
4. Michelangelo Cartoon - www.accademia....
5. Medici court Florence - www.pinterest....
6. Cosimo I de Medici - it.wikipedia.o...
7. Bronzino portrait - en.wikipedia.o...
8. School of Athens (humanism) - www.google.com...