# Portrait of Pierantonio Bandini [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BRONZINO, Agnolo]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on wood, 107 x 83 cm ## Commentary This painting belongs to an impressive series of later portraits, dating from the 1550s. Known as the Portrait of a Man with a Statuette of Venus, its sitter has recently been identified as Pierantonio Bandini \(born 1514\), one of the wealthiest and most prominent Florentine bankers living in Rome in the second half of the sixteenth century. The blue figure of a "Venus Pudica" \(modest Venus\) may refer to Pierantonio's collecting interests and to the antiquities recorded at his property at Monte Cavallo, Rome. ## 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]()