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Article: An exemplary humanist hybrid: Vasari's "Fraude" with reference to Bronzino's "Sphinx." (Giorgio Vasari and Agnolo di Cosimo a.k.a. Bronzino)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 1996
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In an article recently published in this journal,(1) I argued that a certain, often discussed, hybrid encountered in Bronzino's well-known painting depicting The Exposure of Luxury (ca. 1545, National Gallery, London; also known as Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time) was actually intended to represent a "sphinx" [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 1 OMITTED]. Whatever its proper designation, this is the bizarre figure that may be espied lurking in darkness (as much metaphorical as physical), just as she/it was placed in the middle ground of the far right side of Bronzino's carefully contrived composition [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURE 2 OMITTED]. This darkly crouching creature was situated by ...
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