Bronzino Exhibit at Met

The Medici Archive Project, in conjunction with the exhibit “The Drawings of Bronzino” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art www.metmuseum.org/special/se_event.asp , presents a series of lectures placing Bronzino’s life and artworks within a historical context, drawing on documentary evidence from the State Archives in Florence and other original manuscript sources. On March 26, 2010, Lisa Kaborycha, MAP National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, delivered a lecture entitled: ’Among Rare Men’: Bronzino and Homoerotic Culture at the Medici Court’ www.youtube.com/watch . On April 16, 2010, Alessio Assonitis, MAP Research Director, delivered a lecture entitled: 'Bronzino at the Court of Cosimo I de' Meidici' www.youtube.com/watch. On April 16, 2010, Sheila Barker, MAP Educational Programming Director, delivered a lecture entitled: 'Pearls, Prunes, and Malaria: Behind the Scenes of Bronzino's Double Portrait of Eleonora di Toledo and Giovanni de' Medici' www.youtube.com/watch.