BRONZINO, IL, the name given to ANGELO ALLORI (1503 1572), Florentine painter. Bronzino was born at Monticelli, near Florence, on Nov. 17, 1503, and studied under Raffaellino del Garbo and Jacopo da Pontormo. He was influenced by Michael Angelo and worked in Florence, where he was court portrait painter to Cosmo I., Duke of Tuscany. With the exception of Andrea del Sarto, he was the greatest portrait painter produced by Florence in the 16th century. He also painted sacred and decorative subjects, good examples of which are the "Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time" in the National Gallery, London, and the "Limbo or the Descent of Christ into Hades," painted in 1552, in the Uffizi at Florence. The "St. Julian," and the "Judith and Holofernes," in the Pitti Palace, are among his most famous works. Of the latter there are many copies in different galleries. He painted portraits of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio and of some of the famous men of his own day. His three fine paintings of Eleonora di Toledo, grand duchess of Tuscany, are in the Uffizi, the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin, and the Wallace collection, London. He was a poet as well as a painter and a member of the Florentine academy. He died in Florence on Nov. 23, 1572.