In 1532 Agnolo Bronzino was commissioned by the Florentine merchant and banker Bartolomeo Bettini to paint the portraits of three literary masters of the Italian Renaissance: Dante, Petrarch, and Boccacio.

The paintings of Petrarch and Boccacio sadly have been lost, but Bronzino's masterful Allegorical Portrait of Dante been well preserved, and in a very rare occurrence, is currently on view in New York City at the Italian Cultural Institute in an exhibition titled Bronzino: Allegorical Portrait of Dante.

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Fonte: La Voce di New York