Bronzino ranks among the most accomplished painters of the Florentine Renaissance, with a suavity of drawing and delicacy of colouring that reward close attention. He was employed by the Medici duke Cosimo I to cover huge surfaces on the walls of his palaces and chapels and to paint his children as sophisticated and enchanting little princes and princesses.
An RA exhibit details attempts to wipe out Ukrainian culture – and what survived
The parallels between the threat to Ukrainian culture in the 1930s and today are unmistakable.