The Drawings of Bronzino

New York until 18/4/20101000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street Metropolitan Museum of Art The first exhibition ever dedicated to Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572) curated by Carmen C. Bambach. The exhibition will feature drawings of extraordinary beauty and rarity which are seldom on public view, and will draw loans from major museums and private collections within Europe and North America, including the Galleria degli Uffizi, Muse’e du Louvre, British Museum, Royal Library of Windsor Castle, Ashmolean Museum, Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden, and Staatliche Museen Berlin. The Drawings of Bronzino will offer an introduction to Bronzino’s celebrated oeuvre and a unique insight into his larger projects and commissions through the close examination of his drawings. Bronzino was a perfectionist, not prolific, and his surviving drawings, while exquisitely beautiful, have been little studied, as they are seldom on public view. The exhibition and accompanying catalogue will explore his work as a draftsman in depth and make a substantial scholarly contribution, re-examining some of the open questions regarding his career, and more precisely defining the chronology of his works.  The Drawings of Bronzino will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, authored by Carmen C. Bambach, Janet Cox-Rearick, and George R. Goldner, with essays by Marzia Faietti, Elizabeth Pilliod, and Philippe Costamagna. It will be published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press.  The catalogue is made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.  Educational programs accompanying the exhibition include a Sunday at the Met program on March 28 with lectures by James Fenton, Elizabeth Cropper, Deborah Parker, and Louis A. Waldman; film screenings; gallery talks; and family programs. (bronzino)