Booking open for Michelangelo bronze conference

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Tickets are now on sale for the conference A Michelangelo Discovery - The Rothschild bronzes and the case for their proposed attribution.

The conference takes place at Downing College Cambridge on Monday 6 July, with a drinks reception afterwards in the Fitzwilliam Museum. Tickets are £85, booking is online. An international panel of art historians, conservation scientists, and other experts will present further research into how the enigmatic Rothschild bronzes were made, their likely iconography, meaning, patron and purpose. Papers will also consider how they fit into Michelangelo’s career more broadly and how they relate to the work of his contemporaries.

Click here for a PDF of the conference brochure - includes schedule for the day, paper titles and abstracts and biographies of speakers and chairs.