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bronzino who?

I went to the Met's show of Bronzino drawings the other day (good show, by the way, I was pleasantly surprised - his drawing are better than his paintings, which don't really speak to me). One of the drawings had the words "Angelo Bronzino" at the bottom, which were written at a later date by a collector or cataloguer - clearly not the artist himself!!! This couple was standing in front of the drawing when the woman saw the name and remarked:
- Oh, look. He signed it "Angelo". But here (on the tag describing the work) they wrote "Agnolo" (she pronounced it AG-no-lo).
- It's a typo.
- But why would they do that?
- Because they're retards.
And they walked away.
Right. Because the Met put together a show on an artist and misspelled his first name not only on the tag that the woman saw, but on every label, the 300-page catalog, and every other piece of writing. Think again about who the retard is.

posted by h ampelofilosofos @ 4:30 PM