The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Venue Partner)
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Head of a Smiling Woman
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Sunday Mar 28, 2010 (1–4pm)
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Directions: Main Building: Take the 4, 5, or 6 train to 86th Street and walk to Fifth Avenue; OR take the M1, M2, M3, or M4 bus along Fifth Avenue. The Cloisters: Take the A train to 190th Street and walk, or transfer to the M4 bus and ride north one stop.
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Free with museum admission
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Come enjoy a Sunday at the Met! This afternoon provides an in-depth look into the work of leading Italian Mannerist artist Agnolo Bronzino. A painter, draftsman, scholar, and poet, Bronzino became famous as the court artist to Duke Cosimo I de' Medici and his wife, Duchess Eleonora di Toledo. Speakers include Elizabeth Cropper from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., James Fenton, a poet, journalist, and critic, Lucia Meoni, an independent scholar, Deborah Parker from the University of Virginia, and Louis A. Waldman from The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies and the University of Texas at Austin. 1 p.m. in the Museum's Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium.
This event accompanies the special exhibition The Drawings of Bronzino, on view through April 18.
For more information about the event, click here.
Image: Agnolo Bronzino (1503–1572). Head of a Smiling Young Woman, ca. 1542-43. Musée du Louvre, Département des Arts Graphiques
