FLORENCE, ITALY – The Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg (Virginia, USA) will held the exhibition “Michelangelo: Sacred and Profane Masterpiece Drawings From the Casa Buonarroti.”
The exhibition, which opens at the Muscarelle on Feb. 9 and then travels to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in April, will include a group of 26 Michelangelo drawings from the Casa Buonarroti museum in Florence, Italy.
Museum and monument: a place to remember and celebrate the greatness of Michelangelo and at the same time a pompous and Baroque exhibition of the art collections of the family. Casa Buonarroti is one of the most extraordinary Florentine museums.
It offers in the first place the possibility of admiring the two famous marble relief pieces, sculptured by Michelangelo in his early years: the Madonna della Scala, which clearly shows the passion of this artist for Donatello and the Battle of the Centaurs that echoes the admiration of the artist for classic art.
That museum, housed in a palazzo that Michelangelo owned but never lived in, has one of the world’s largest collections of his drawings.
The exhibition will include studies for paintings as well as designs and plans for churches and military fortifications. Several of them have never been seen in the United States.
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