The Morgan Library in New York has reopened the McKim Building containing, among much else, a Dante lunette which is also the basis for an ornament on sale at their shop.
Contributed by Patrick Molloy
posted on November 17, 2010 by
Dante Tree Ornament
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Agnolo Bronzino at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2010)
Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572), “Head of Dante in Profile Facing Right and Wearing a Cap,” 1532
“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
