The National Gallery of London
will this spring showcase the Italian Renaissance from March 15
through June 25 with the 'Michelangelo and Sebastiano'
exhibition.
The creative collaboration and friendship between the two
artists, with their complementary but radically different
talent, will be on display for the first time.
Through about 70 works of art including paintings, sculpture,
drawings and letters, the exhibition documents a professional
relationship that lasted for over 25 years and does not shy away
from times of both exultation and frustration experienced by
both Michelangelo and Sebastiano del Piombo.
They first met in Rome in 1511 when Michelangelo was working
on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Among the major works presented to the public in the
exhibition is the 'Pietà' for San Francesco in Viterbo
(c.1512-16), which marked the beginning of the collaboration
between the two, the decoration of the Borgherini Chapel in San
Pietro in Montorio a Roma (1516 -24) and the 'Raising of
Lazarus' (1517-19) by Sebastiano del Piombo, painted for the
Cathedral of Narbonne and in which Michelangelo intervened only
at an advanced stage of the painting, and 'Christ the Redeemer',
a monumental marble sculpture made by Michelangelo in 1514-15
and loaned by the S. Vincenzo Martire Church in Bassano Romano.
photo: Sebastiano del Piombo, Judgement of Solomon, 1508-1510
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