VIENNA.- Between 8 October 2010 and 9 January 2011, the Albertina
presents the first major Michelangelo exhibition in more than twenty
years. This display of 120 out of the artist’s most precious drawings
offers a comprehensive insight into the work of this great genius. The
sheets come from the Albertina’s own holdings, as well as from important
European and American museums – the Uffizi and the Casa Buonarroti in
Florence, the Louvre in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New
York, the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, the Royal Library in Windsor Castle
(property of the British monarch) and the British Museum in London –
and private collections.
The exhibition spans from Michelangelo’s earliest surviving
drawings, his designs for the Battle of Cascina, and his studies for the
vault frescoes and The Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel to the
refined drawings the artist presented to Tommaso de’Cavalieri and a
number of late treatments of the Crucifixion.
Michelangelo’s drawings will be juxtaposed to examples of works by
artists from the master’s immediate surroundings (Giulio Clovio,
Sebastiano del Piombo, and Daniele da Volterra), which is meant to
demonstrate how clearly Michelangelo’s drawings distinguish themselves
in terms of style and ingenuity.
It was three years ago that curator Dr Achim Gnann began his
preparations for this exhibition. His goal is to review those datings of
Michelangelo’s drawings that have sometimes been considered
controversial and elaborate on the evolution of the artist’s style with
utmost clarity.
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