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Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian renaissance Drawings
Opens: 22/04/2010 Closes: 25/07/2010
British Museum, London
Over 100 Renaissance works form a blockbuster drawing show staged by Florence's Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe Uffiz and London's British Museum. Highlights include significant works by Botticelli, Titian and Michelangelo, along with ten drawings by Leonardo, one of which is accepted as the earliest landscape drawing in European art.
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The Telegraph“As a basic introduction, the show couldn’t be better” But in spanning the whole of 15th century... almost every drawing from the first three quarters of the 15th century is reduced to insignificance by being shown in an exhibition with three of the greatest draughtsmen who ever lived.
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Time Out“The immediacy and flair of these drawings belie their age...” It's also as scholarly and as comprehensive a show as you will ever see on fifteenth-century Italian Renaissance drawing, revelling in the medium's radical function as much as its finessed forms...
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Financial Times“A connoisseur’s show predicated on detail and nuance...” This show returns to first sources to demonstrate, through the intimacy and immediacy of the primary medium of drawing, the myriad independent talents and interests that constituted the Italian Renaissance...
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this is london“Beauty and perfection...” There are drawings by Michelangelo and Raphael in this exhibition, more by Leonardo, and at least 50 by other artists over which to gloat, not only for their position in the hierarchy of drawing, but for their daring, beauty and perfection...
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The Times“To see works of this calibre is a treasured privilege...” The delight of this exhibition lies perhaps less in standing back and taking stock than in relishing a rare opportunity for contemplative appreciation...
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