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“This exhibition is the first ever dedicated to Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572), and presents nearly all the known drawings by or attributed to this leading Italian Mannerist artist, who was active primarily in Florence.” [. . .] —The Metropolitan Museum of Art
“. . .A leading intellectual of the time testified that the painter had memorized all of Dante and much of Petrarch.” [. . .] –Peter Schejeldahl, The New Yorker, March 3, 2010
Contributed by Patrick Molloy