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Article: Magnificenza--Michelangelo's Florence
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- May 1, 2002
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AN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OPENING in June reveals the powerful relationship between the Medicis of the late Renaissance and the artists who worked for them. "Magnificenza! The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence" is a collaboration between the Detroit Institute of Arts and dozens of other institutions in this country and abroad.
Drawings and sculptures by Michelangelo and Cellini, paintings by Bronzino, Pontormo, and Salviati, and decorative arts by Buontalenti grace the exhibition. Many of the objects are on loan from institutions that have never lent them before, even to museums within Europe. The exhibition also draws on critical studies of the histories of ...