# Guidobaldo della Rovere [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BRONZINO, Agnolo]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on wood, 114 x 86 cm ## Commentary Visible swoops of the brush describe the armors's damascening with the aristocratic dash known as sprezzatura. By implication, the teenage nobleman and future condottiere \(military leader\) is endowed with the same quality - despite his winsome expression. Helmet and codpiece complete the ensemble. Compared with such mannered treatment, the naturalism with which the handsome hound is rendered is startling. For this painting Bronzino used Pontormo's very influential composition of the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/p/pontormo/3/07halber.html'\)" href="/html/p/pontormo/3/07halber.html">portrait of Francesco Guardi</a> as a halberdier. ## Related artworks - [A Young Woman and Her Little Boy]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Alessandro de' Medici]() - [Allegory of Happiness]() - [Altarpiece]() - [Altarpiece]() - [Angel of the Annunciation]() - [Cosimo I de' Medici as Orpheus]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()