Alessandro de' Medici

Toronto, Art Gallery of Toronto, Italian Old Masters and German Primitives, 1931, no. 26, as Bronzino. Muskegon, Michigan, Hackley Art Gallery, Italian Paintings in the Loan Collection from Mr. Martin A. Ryerson, M. Knoedler and Company, E. and A. Silberman, 1932, no. 6, as Bronzino. Milwaukee Art Museum, The Detective’s Eve: Investigating the Old Masters, January 19-March 19, 1989, no. 33. The Art Institute of Chicago, Bill Viola: A 25-Year Survey, October 16, 1999 – January 9, 2000, included in the gallery that held Viola’s The Greeting for the Chicago venue. Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, L’Ombra del genio: Michelangelo e l’arte a Firenze, 1537-1631, 2002; traveled to Art Institute of Chicago and Detroit Institute of Arts as The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence, no. 34. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pontormo, Bronzino and the Medici: The Transformation of the Renaissance Portrait in Florence, 2004, cat. 25. Frankfurt, Städel Museum, Maniera: Pontormo, Bronzino and Medici Florence, 2016, no. 65.

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