Getty Acquires a Bronzino, Now One of the Museum's 'Greatest'

LOS ANGELES TIMES
By Jessica Gelt

“Virgin and Child With Saint Elizabeth and Saint John the Baptist” by Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572) has been acquired by the Getty Museum. (The Getty)

The Getty said Thursday that it had acquired Italian masterpieces — a religious painting by Renaissance master Agnolo Bronzino and a pair of Gothic marble sculptures by Giovanni di Balduccio — that rank among the “greatest works” in the museum’s collection. The painting, “Virgin and Child With Saint Elizabeth and Saint John the Baptist” (1540-1545), and the sculptures known as “The Annunciation” (1333-34) are in extraordinarily good condition and were purchased from an unnamed private collector in a rare offering of such historically important, valuable works, said Getty Museum Director Timothy Potts. [More]