the young man are also representative of the patrician.
The color scheme is symbolic of the Spanish influence, as the young man’s cap and doublet are black against a background of washed out olive green walls. The color scheme helps to add to the contrast between the muted environment and the sharply defined silhouette of the young man. One of the long-fingered hands of the proud, young man are clutching a book to show we are viewing an intellectual and not a man of action. The Mannerists sought a sophisticated elegance and Bronzino has certainly captured this mood in his Portrait, whose human figure seems as if, could he speak, he would disdain our looking at his picture.
The extremities of the body were important to the Mannerists for showing grace and manners and the young man’s proud, haughty gaze and his long, graceful fingers demonstrate this aspect of Mannerism. Further showing the focus on the human form of the Mannerists is the fact that the figure of the young man is drawn in the front plane of the work and consumes th
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