"Michelangelo: Drawings and Other Treasures from the Casa Buonarroti, Florence"
2001-06-23 until 2001-09-02
High Museum
Atlanta, GA, USA

Following the High's presentation, the exhibition will travel to only one other U.S. venue, the Toledo Museum of Art in September 2001. The exhibition will contain many works by Italy's most famous artist, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), that have never before been displayed in this country alongside works by other artists and memorabilia from the artist's family home, Casa Buonarroti, in Florence, Italy.

The High's presentation will triple the number of works of art in the United States by Michelangelo. By most counts there are less than a dozen drawings by Michelangelo in American collections and no paintings or sculpture. Now two dozen superb sketches and preparatory studies for such important works as the Sistine Chapel and the Medici Tombs will travel to Atlanta's High Museum of Art.

Michelangelo: Drawings and Other Treasures from the Casa Buonarroti, Florence is organized by the High Museum of Art in conjunction with the Casa Buonarroti, Florence.

IMAGE:
Michelangelo,
Madonna and Child, ca. 1525,
Black pencil, red pencil, white lead, and ink on paper,
21 5/16 x 15 9 16 inches.
Collection of the Casa Buonarroti

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