"Michelangelo and the Vatican: Masterworks from the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples" highlights the artistic legacy of Pope Paul III (1468–1549), whose patronage of Michelangelo, as well as of Raphael, Titian, and Tintoretto, illuminates a watershed moment in the history of Italian Renaissance art. The exhibition, featuring work by these masters and more, and largely drawn from the renowned collection of the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples, Italy, presents 40 works commissioned or completed during the papacy of Pope Paul III, including drawings, cartoons, paintings, sculptures, and prints.
"Michelangelo and the Vatican: Masterworks from the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples" highlights the artistic legacy of Pope Paul III (1468–1549), whose patronage of Michelangelo, as well as of Raphael, Titian, and Tintoretto, illuminates a watershed moment in the history of Italian Renaissance art. The exhibition, featuring work by these masters and more, and largely drawn from the renowned collection of the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples, Italy, presents 40 works commissioned or completed during the papacy of Pope Paul III, including drawings, cartoons, paintings, sculptures, and prints.
"Michelangelo and the Vatican: Masterworks from the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples" highlights the artistic legacy of Pope Paul III (1468–1549), whose patronage of Michelangelo, as well as of Raphael, Titian, and Tintoretto, illuminates a watershed moment in the history of Italian Renaissance art. The exhibition, featuring work by these masters and more, and largely drawn from the renowned collection of the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples, Italy, presents 40 works commissioned or completed during the papacy of Pope Paul III, including drawings, cartoons, paintings, sculptures, and prints.