Renaissance at the MET: New Exhibit of 15th&16th Century Italian Art!

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Italian Renaissance Drawing Exhibit via metmuseum.org
Italian Renaissance Drawing Exhibit via metmuseum.org

If you are looking for things to do while you are in New York, you must visit the museums. Hot off the Met Ball, the museum will showcase 15/16th century renaissance drawings from central and southern Italy. Among the 42 pieces in the collection Florentine is well represented, including pieces from the one and only Leonardo Da Vinci and Antonio Pollaiuolo. There are a few rare gems in this collection including a rare southern Italian sheet attributed to Antonella da Messina. The exhibits goal is to show how drawing functioned in the Renaissance. The obvious function of the drawings was to provide a template for paintings but now it’s understood that the drawings also were templates for sculptures and textiles. The drawings range from preliminary sketches to finished productions.

Museum goers can view the types of tools used as well as valuable information sheets. Interesting fact, by the 16th century the drawings were considered highly valuable by patrons so the drawings would be sold for sizable sums. If you cannot make it down to the museum soon, no worries the exhibit will be on display until September 1, 2014. And if you are truly interested in art you should check out the Met’s exhibit on Byzantine arts where you can drink in gorgeous mosaics and paintings and of course it’s hard to avoid the Roman and Greek sculptures which is the Met’s pride and joy. Whatever you choose to see you will not be disappointed. After all, the Met is New York’s most beloved museum and its gift shop is also worthy of note.

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