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Fra Angelio to Leonardo: Italian Renaisance Drawings
Fra Angelio to Leonardo: Italian Renaisance Drawings
Exhibition Tickets
The Brittish Museum
Booking from
Thu, 22 April 2010Booking to
Sun, 25 July 2010Group Rates
Group Rate:
8+ £9.50
About the Event:
This major exhibition features 100 exquisite drawings by Italian Renaissance artists including Raphael, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Verrocchio among others.
Drawn from the two foremost collections in the field, the display charts the increasing importance of drawing during this period, featuring works by Leonardo da Vinci, Fra Angelico, Jacopo and Gentile Bellini, Botticelli, Carpaccio, Filippo Lippi, Mantegna, Michelangelo, Verrocchio and Titian.
In 15th-century Italy there was a fundamental shift in style and artistic thinking in the use of preparatory drawings. What began as a means of preserving artistic ideas became the ideal way to perfect more naturalistic forms and perspective – a new approach by painters, sculptors and architects.
Infrared and other technology used in conservation research provide fresh insights into how drawing allowed painters to experiment and explore with a freedom not always reflected in their finished works. Examples in the exhibition show the trend towards depiction of movement and expression of emotion, often inspired by classical antiquity.
This exhibition is a unique opportunity to discover the evolution of drawing which laid the foundations of the High Renaissance style of Michelangelo and Raphael.
Travel
The British Museum is located on Great Russell Street, just off Tottenham Court Road in central London.
The nearest tube stations are each about 6 minutes away
Tottenham Court Road (Northern and Central lines)
Holborn (Central and Piccadilly lines)
Russell Square (Piccadilly line)
The Museum is also within easy walking distance of Euston station (20 minutes)
Some of the most direct bus routes are
New Oxford Street: 7, 8, 19, 22b, 25, 38, 55, 98
Tottenham Court Road, northbound and Gower Street, southbound 10, 24, 29, 73, 134
Southampton Row: 68, 91, 188
Access
Wheelchairs:
Main Entrance Great Russell Street
Access (stairs and lifts)
The Main entrance (South side, via Great Russell Street) has 12 steps with handrails at each side. There is a self-operable lift to the left of the steps where a bell is available for visitors requiring assistance.
Montague Place/ North Entrance
The Montague Place entrance (North side) provides a level entrance to the Museum and a lift taking you to levels in the Museum building. Please note that access from the North lift to the main floor of the Museum is on level 0.
Hearing Impaired:
A Sound Enhancement System with portable induction loops is available for most gallery talks and to support sign-interpreted tours.
Guide, hearing and assistance dogs are welcome. Dog bowls are available from the Information Desk.
8+ £9.50
About the Event:
This major exhibition features 100 exquisite drawings by Italian Renaissance artists including Raphael, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Verrocchio among others.
Drawn from the two foremost collections in the field, the display charts the increasing importance of drawing during this period, featuring works by Leonardo da Vinci, Fra Angelico, Jacopo and Gentile Bellini, Botticelli, Carpaccio, Filippo Lippi, Mantegna, Michelangelo, Verrocchio and Titian.
In 15th-century Italy there was a fundamental shift in style and artistic thinking in the use of preparatory drawings. What began as a means of preserving artistic ideas became the ideal way to perfect more naturalistic forms and perspective – a new approach by painters, sculptors and architects.
Infrared and other technology used in conservation research provide fresh insights into how drawing allowed painters to experiment and explore with a freedom not always reflected in their finished works. Examples in the exhibition show the trend towards depiction of movement and expression of emotion, often inspired by classical antiquity.
This exhibition is a unique opportunity to discover the evolution of drawing which laid the foundations of the High Renaissance style of Michelangelo and Raphael.
Travel
The British Museum is located on Great Russell Street, just off Tottenham Court Road in central London.
The nearest tube stations are each about 6 minutes away
Tottenham Court Road (Northern and Central lines)
Holborn (Central and Piccadilly lines)
Russell Square (Piccadilly line)
The Museum is also within easy walking distance of Euston station (20 minutes)
Some of the most direct bus routes are
New Oxford Street: 7, 8, 19, 22b, 25, 38, 55, 98
Tottenham Court Road, northbound and Gower Street, southbound 10, 24, 29, 73, 134
Southampton Row: 68, 91, 188
Access
Wheelchairs:
Main Entrance Great Russell Street
Access (stairs and lifts)
The Main entrance (South side, via Great Russell Street) has 12 steps with handrails at each side. There is a self-operable lift to the left of the steps where a bell is available for visitors requiring assistance.
Montague Place/ North Entrance
The Montague Place entrance (North side) provides a level entrance to the Museum and a lift taking you to levels in the Museum building. Please note that access from the North lift to the main floor of the Museum is on level 0.
Hearing Impaired:
A Sound Enhancement System with portable induction loops is available for most gallery talks and to support sign-interpreted tours.
Guide, hearing and assistance dogs are welcome. Dog bowls are available from the Information Desk.
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British MuseumGreat Russell Street
London WC1B 3DG
United Kingdom
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