Art - A Florentine Master Arrives at the Met - NYTimes.com

Art - A Florentine Master Arrives at the Met - NYTimes.com: "“At his peak, in the 1550s, Bronzino was the most influential painter in Florence,” writes Holland Cotter. “Why, given his fame, this artist has had to wait some 500 years for a museum solo is a puzzle.” But finally that solo, called “The Drawings of Bronzino,” has arrived at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Go to discover this artist, the son of a butcher who inspired Henry James and was “thoroughly embedded in Florentine high culture, with its weave of European urbanity and Tuscan particularity.” The show, which encompasses all but two of the 61 works on paper currently attributed to the artist, “is a scholarly tour de force.”"