This first ever exhibition dedicated solely to artist Agnolo Bronzino (1503–1572) is now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The exhibit presents nearly all the known drawings by, or attributed to, this leading Italian Mannerist artist.

According to the Met, Bronzino was active primarily in Florence as a painter, draftsman, academician, and enormously witty poet. He earned fame as the court artist to the Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici and his wife, the Duchess Eleonora di Toledo.

The monographic exhibition at the Met contains approximately 60 drawings from European and North-American collections, many of which have never before been on public view.

The exhibit is accompanied by a catalog authored by a team of international scholars.

The exhibition was organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in collaboration with the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi and the Polo Museale Fiorentino, Florence.

For more information about the exhibit, go here.