The three most prominent artists of Florence; Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Raphael, come at a single-roof through their exquisite artworks in Buckingham Palace, London from November 9, 2024 – February 16, 2025. Exploring the rivalry between Michelangelo and Leonardo, with an innocent influence over Raphael, this exhibition will present over 40 works of the artists.
Curated by Scott Nethersole, Professor for History of Art and Architecture at Radboud University, and Per Rumberg, the Jacob Rothschild Head of the Curatorial Department at the National Gallery, with Julien Domercq, Curator at the Royal Academy, and Natasha Fyffe, Genesis Future Curator at the Royal Academy, the art display is organized by the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in partnership with Royal Collection Trust and the National Gallery, London.
The exhibition has selected items to display, which include Michelangelo’s Taddei Tondo, Leonardo’s Burlington House Cartoon, and Raphael Bridgewater Madonna with some of the finest drawings from the Renaissance period. Having an opening with the majestic marble sculpture in the UK, the celebrated Taddei Tondo from 1504-05 with its preparatory drawings, the museum will further strengthen the art world through an indelible impact of Raphael through the exquisite Bridgewater Madonna (Bridgewater Collection Loan, National Galleries of Scotland) and Esterházy Madonna, c. 1508 (Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest).
The central gallery is reserved for Leonardo’s Burlington House Cartoon (The National Gallery, London), which will return to Royal Collection Trust for the first time in over 60 years. This exhibition will have an accompanying catalog, which will also present new research behind the original context of the cartoon. Further, it will have the legendary but incomplete masterpiece, the Battle of Anghiari. Lastly, the exhibition will conclude with a drawing of Raphael (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) where he painstakingly copies the central scene of Leonardo’s Battle of Anghiari.
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Featured Image: The Bust of a Cleric by Fra Angelico; © Royal Collection Enterprises Limited 2024.