The CRRS has partnered with the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi in Florence and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York to run a competition for an English translation of one of two poems by the noted sixteenth-century painter and poet Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572). The competition is designed to complement two major exhibitions of Bronzino’s works taking place this year: the first exhibition, Drawings of Bronzino, is currently running at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (20 January – 18 April 2010) while the second, Bronzino, Artist and Poet, will be mounted at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence this coming fall (24 September 2010-23 January 2011).
Scholars, students,
and the general public are all invited to participate in the competition by providing
an English translation of one (or both) of Bronzino’s two poems touching
on the art of painting, that is, either “Del pennello” (On the Paint-Brush)
or “La cipolla” (The Onion).
The two winners
(one for each poem) will each receive two complimentary tickets to the exhibition
in Florence, a copy of the catalogues of both the Florence and the New York exhibitions;
and a copy of Florence and Beyond: Culture, Society and Politics in Renaissance
Italy, published by the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
of Toronto. The winning entries will also be published on the CRRS and Palazzo
Strozzi web sites.
Further information
on the competition, as well as the texts to be translated and the forms to be
used in submitting the English translations can be found here.
The deadline
for the competition is 30 May 2010. The winners’ names will be announced
on 24 June 2010. For further information, contact Prof.
Konrad Eisenbichler
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For more information
about the CRRS, contact our Assistant to the Director, Dr.
Stephanie Treloar.
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