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3/5 The British Museum employs immersive techniques to bring the great Renaissance master’s drawings to life in a show that shifts from the intensely powerful to the saccharine before a finale ...
‘His work becomes, in the last 10 years, very introspective and very poignant,’ said curator Sarah Vowles Michelangelo, beyond the Sistine Chapel: British Museum explores last decades of ...
March 20 – Opening of the 81st Whitney Biennial in New York City, United States, lasting until August 11, 2024. [3] April 20 – Opening of the 60th Venice Biennale, lasting until November 24, 2024. [4] April 21 – A statue of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, by Hywel Pratley, is unveiled in Oakham, Rutland, UK. [5]
The 60th Venice Biennale is an international contemporary art exhibition held between April and November 2024. The Venice Biennale takes place every two years in Venice, Italy, with some limited exceptions. Artistic director Adriano Pedrosa curated its central exhibition, Foreigners Everywhere, and 88 countries contributed national pavilions.
The Last Judgement was painted by Michelangelo from 1535 to 1541, between two important historic events: the Sack of Rome by mercenary forces of the Holy Roman Empire in 1527, and the Council of Trent which commenced in 1545. The work was designed on a grand scale, and spans the entire wall behind the altar of the Sistine Chapel.
In 2012, they were exhibited at the Bronze exhibition [5] held at the Royal Academy of Arts as mid sixteenth-century Roman. Paul Joannides, an eminent scholar of Michelangelo's drawings, saw the bronzes in 2002 and was struck by their Michelangelesque qualities. [6]
Rachel is a sculpture by Michelangelo of the Old Testament figure Rachel. Like Leah , it was part of the final, 1542–1545 design for the tomb of Pope Julius II in San Pietro in Vincoli , on which it still remains.
Vatican Splendors: A Journey Through Faith and Art is a touring exhibit of religious and historical objects from the Vatican, some of them nearly two thousand years old. In 2010-11, the exhibit toured six cities in the U.S.: Cleveland, St. Paul, St. Petersburg, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and Fort Lauderdale, and continued to São Paulo, Brazil.