Portrait of Lucrecia Panciatichi
The Portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi is a painting by the Italian artist Agnolo di Cosimo, known as Bronzino, completed around 1545.
Lucrezia di Sigismondo Pucci was the wife of Bartolomeo Panciatichi, a Florentine humanist and politician, also played by Bronzino in another Uffizi portrait. Giorgio Vasari describes the two portraits as: "so natural that they seem really alive." The spectacle of refined clothing and jewelry was intended to not only underline the woman's elite position but also aspects of her personality through complex symbology, including the words "Amour dure sans fin" on the gold necklace, a reference to a love treatise written for the Grand Duke of Florence, Cosimo I de' Medici, in 1547.
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