# Lorenzo Lenzi [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BRONZINO, Agnolo]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on panel, 90 x 71 cm ## Commentary The sitter of this portrait was identified as Lorenzo Lenzi, called il Lauro, the son of a prominent Florentine family. \(Lauro is the masculine form of Laura, the ideal lady to whom Petrarch dedicated amatory verses.\) The youth in the portrait holds an open book inscribed with sonnets by Petrarch on the right and Benedetto Varchi on the left - where the sitter's thumb suggestively overlaps the word "Poeta" bringing the viewer's attention to the verse and its author. ## 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]()