British Museum to Show Italian Renaissance Drawings

Published: July 16, 2009

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LONDON— Next summer, the British Museum will unveil its fragile collection of Italian Renaissance drawings, an event that happens only once every 25 or so years. The museum will join forces with the Uffizi in Florence to create an exhibit that will include the work of such Renaissance masters as Fra Angelico, Botticelli, Mantegna, Michelangelo, and Raphael.

At the same time, the museum will feature another exhibition of foreign works from the same period: sculptures from the city-state of Ife, in what is now Nigeria, will be on display. Not only will the pieces match up with the Renaissance drawings chronologically, says British Museum director Neil MacGregor, but they are “of absolutely comparable quality.” The exhibitions will follow another major 16th-century-based event for the museum, this fall’s show of Aztec artifacts from the reign of Moctezuma.

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