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Bronzino
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Bronzino

Italian painter

Born 17 November 1503 · died 23 November 1572, aged 69
Also known as Agnolo di Cosimo, Angelo Bronzino, Angelo Allori

Who was alive at the same time as Bronzino?

  1. Christopher Columbus, 1451 – 1506
  2. Leonardo da Vinci, 1452 – 1519
  3. Vasco da Gama, c. 1464 – 1524
  4. Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
  5. Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
  6. Albrecht Dürer, 1471 – 1528
  7. Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 – 1543
  8. Michelangelo, 1475 – 1564
  9. Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1480 – 1521
  10. Raphael, 1483 – 1520
  11. Martin Luther, 1483 – 1546
  12. Hernán Cortés, 1485 – 1547
  13. Jacques Cartier, 1491 – 1557
  14. Suleiman the Magnificent, 1494 – 1566
  15. Bronzino, 1503 – 1572
  16. Michel de Montaigne, 1533 – 1592
  17. Elizabeth I, 1533 – 1603
  18. Akbar, 1542 – 1605
  19. Miguel de Cervantes, c. 1547 – 1616
  20. Giordano Bruno, 1548 – 1600
  21. Francis Bacon, 1561 – 1626
  22. Galileo Galilei, 1564 – 1642
  23. William Shakespeare, 1564 – 1616
  24. Johannes Kepler, 1571 – 1630

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When Bronzino was born, Leonardo da Vinci was 51, Michelangelo was 28, Martin Luther was 20, Christopher Columbus was 51 or 52 and Niccolò Machiavelli was 34.

When Bronzino died, William Shakespeare was 8, Galileo Galilei was 8, Elizabeth I was 39, Francis Bacon was 11 and Johannes Kepler was under a year old.

Born during Bronzino’s lifetime: William Shakespeare, Galileo Galilei, Miguel de Cervantes, Elizabeth I, Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Akbar and Giordano Bruno.

Not quite contemporaries: Peter Paul Rubens was born about 5 years after Bronzino died, Cardinal Richelieu was born about 13 years after Bronzino died, Pope Alexander VI died months before Bronzino was born and Hugo Grotius was born about 11 years after Bronzino died.

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Where Bronzino’s contemporaries were born

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The 150 best-known contemporaries

189 of the people we track were surely alive at the same time as Bronzino. The 150 best known are listed here. See also everyone alive in 1538.

  1. William Shakespeare 1564 – 1616
  2. Leonardo da Vinci 1452 – 1519
  3. Galileo Galilei 1564 – 1642
  4. Michelangelo 1475 – 1564
  5. Martin Luther 1483 – 1546
  6. Miguel de Cervantes c. 1547 – 1616
  7. Christopher Columbus 1451 – 1506
  8. Niccolò Machiavelli 1469 – 1527
  9. Nicolaus Copernicus 1473 – 1543
  10. Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480 – 1521
  11. Raphael 1483 – 1520
  12. Elizabeth I 1533 – 1603
  13. Francis Bacon 1561 – 1626
  14. Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528
  15. Johannes Kepler 1571 – 1630
  16. Vasco da Gama c. 1464 – 1524
  17. Hernán Cortés 1485 – 1547
  18. Akbar 1542 – 1605
  19. Jacques Cartier 1491 – 1557
  20. Erasmus 1466 – 1536
  21. Suleiman the Magnificent 1494 – 1566
  22. Giordano Bruno 1548 – 1600
  23. Michel de Montaigne 1533 – 1592
  24. Mimar Sinan c. 1490 – 1588
  25. John Calvin 1509 – 1564
  26. François Rabelais 1494 – 1553
  27. Thomas More c. 1478 – 1535
  28. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500 – 1558
  29. Lope de Vega 1562 – 1635
  30. Tycho Brahe 1546 – 1601
  31. Nostradamus 1503 – 1566
  32. Francis Drake c. 1540 – 1596
  33. Henry VIII 1491 – 1547
  34. Ivan the Terrible 1530 – 1584
  35. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina 1525 – 1594
  36. Caravaggio 1571 – 1610
  37. Sandro Botticelli c. 1445 – 1510
  38. El Greco 1541 – 1614
  39. Amerigo Vespucci 1454 – 1512
  40. Luís de Camões c. 1525 – 1580
  41. Philip II of Spain 1527 – 1598
  42. Titian c. 1490 – 1576
  43. Teresa of Ávila 1515 – 1582
  44. Babur 1483 – 1530
  45. Mary, Queen of Scots 1542 – 1587
  46. Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539
  47. Paracelsus 1493 – 1541
  48. Ignatius of Loyola c. 1491 – 1556
  49. Anne Boleyn 1501 – 1536
  50. Henry IV of France 1553 – 1610
  51. Isabella I of Castile 1451 – 1504
  52. Mary I 1516 – 1558
  53. Christopher Marlowe c. 1564 – 1593
  54. Huldrych Zwingli 1484 – 1531
  55. Pope Julius II 1443 – 1513
  56. James VI and I 1566 – 1625
  57. Pope Gregory XIII 1502 – 1585
  58. Edward VI 1537 – 1553
  59. Torquato Tasso 1544 – 1595
  60. Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450 – 1516
  61. Pope Paul III 1468 – 1549
  62. Pope Leo X 1475 – 1521
  63. Ludovico Ariosto 1474 – 1533
  64. Francis I of France 1494 – 1547
  65. Pieter Bruegel the Elder c. 1525 – 1569
  66. Pope Pius V 1504 – 1572
  67. Ferdinand II of Aragon 1452 – 1516
  68. Selim I 1470 – 1520
  69. Francisco Pizarro c. 1478 – 1541
  70. Catherine de' Medici 1519 – 1589
  71. Pope Urban VIII 1568 – 1644
  72. Francis Xavier 1506 – 1552
  73. Giorgio Vasari 1511 – 1574
  74. Pope Paul V 1552 – 1621
  75. Claudio Monteverdi 1567 – 1643
  76. Ben Jonson 1572 – 1637
  77. Pope Adrian VI 1459 – 1523
  78. Hürrem Sultan c. 1507 – c. 1560
  79. Fuzuli c. 1488 – 1556
  80. Pope Pius IV 1499 – 1565
  81. Tintoretto 1519 – 1594
  82. Pope Leo XI 1535 – 1605
  83. Tokugawa Ieyasu 1543 – 1616
  84. John Napier 1550 – 1617
  85. Henry VII of England 1457 – 1509
  86. Pope Clement VII 1478 – 1534
  87. Catherine of Aragon 1485 – 1536
  88. Andreas Vesalius 1514 – 1564
  89. Pope Clement VIII 1536 – 1605
  90. Pope Gregory XV 1554 – 1623
  91. Abbas the Great 1571 – 1629
  92. Ismail I 1487 – 1524
  93. Pope Julius III 1487 – 1555
  94. Pope Sixtus V 1521 – 1590
  95. Pedro Álvares Cabral 1467 – c. 1520
  96. Pope Paul IV 1476 – 1559
  97. Pope Urban VII 1521 – 1590
  98. John of the Cross 1542 – 1591
  99. Jahangir 1569 – 1627
  100. Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1459 – 1519
  101. Louis XII 1462 – 1515
  102. Gerolamo Cardano 1501 – 1576
  103. Humayun 1508 – 1556
  104. William the Silent 1533 – 1584
  105. Philipp Melanchthon 1497 – 1560
  106. Oda Nobunaga 1534 – 1582
  107. Pope Gregory XIV 1535 – 1591
  108. Lady Jane Grey 1537 – 1554
  109. Murad III 1546 – 1595
  110. Bayezid II 1447 – 1512
  111. Andrea Palladio 1508 – c. 1580
  112. Paolo Veronese 1528 – 1588
  113. Willem Barentsz c. 1551 – 1597
  114. Hayreddin Barbarossa c. 1478 – 1546
  115. Lucrezia Borgia 1480 – 1519
  116. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503 – 1564
  117. Selim II 1524 – 1574
  118. Toyotomi Hideyoshi 1537 – 1598
  119. Edmund Spenser c. 1553 – 1599
  120. Guy Fawkes c. 1570 – 1606
  121. Pierre de Ronsard 1524 – 1585
  122. Henry III of France 1551 – 1589
  123. Tommaso Campanella 1568 – 1639
  124. Donato Bramante 1444 – 1514
  125. Pope Marcellus II 1501 – 1555
  126. Charles IX of France 1550 – 1574
  127. Pope Innocent IX 1519 – 1591
  128. Mehmed III 1566 – 1603
  129. Tulsidas c. 1522 – 1623
  130. Gerardus Mercator 1512 – 1594
  131. Francis de Sales 1567 – 1622
  132. Giovanni Bellini c. 1430 – 1516
  133. Henry II of France 1519 – 1559
  134. Ivan III of Russia 1440 – 1505
  135. Joanna of Castile 1479 – 1555
  136. Gustav Vasa 1496 – 1560
  137. Hans Holbein the Younger 1497 – 1543
  138. William Gilbert 1544 – 1603
  139. Walter Raleigh c. 1552 – 1618
  140. Boris Godunov 1552 – 1605
  141. Hernando de Soto c. 1500 – 1542
  142. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1552 – 1612
  143. Sigismund III Vasa 1566 – 1632
  144. Andrea Mantegna 1431 – 1506
  145. Luca Pacioli 1440s – 1517
  146. Bartolomé de las Casas 1484 – 1566
  147. Atahualpa c. 1500 – 1533
  148. Francis II of France 1544 – 1560
  149. Afonso de Albuquerque 1453 – 1515
  150. Étienne de La Boétie 1530 – 1563