A drawing by Michelangelo

Renaissance art reconsidered

Open University study day

Saturday 15 May 2010, 10.30–16.30
Stevenson Lecture Theatre
£20

Listen to British Museum staff discuss Renaissance drawing and workshop practice, medal-making, patronage and graphic arts. You will cover topics including Dürer and Venice on the eve of the Golden Age, the function of Michelangelo’s drawing, the Renaissance printing revolution, and the transmission of Italian Renaissance forms to France via Henry VIII's England.

Open to all members of the public, and complements Open University course AA315.

 


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Image: Michelangelo Buonarotti, Study for Adam, a drawing, AD 1510–11

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