Opulent mix of faceted jade and freshwater pearls recalling the jewelled girdle worn by lucrezia di cosimo de medici in a portrait by agnolo bronzino 150372 a florentine painter bronzino was the court painter of cosimo i dequot medici grand duke of tuscany he was mainly a portraitist but also painted many religious subjects and a few allegorical subjects which include what is probably his best known work quotvenus cupid folly and timequot c 154445 many portraits of the medicis exi