Michelangelo and Raphael in Rome, a history of the Renaissance

The Palazzo Sciarra holds up to 12 February shows a real-event: The Renaissance in Rome. In a sign of Michelangelo and Raphael. The Rome Foundation Museum has curated an exhibition of very wide range, which traces the evolution of the Italian artistic production of the sixteenth century, still soaked from the Renaissance humanist elements of the new religious tension of the century, taking as a reference guide the work of two great pillars of this path in the scenario of the Eternal City. Open as early as the entrance of the exhibit three works, the Apollo-David by Michelangelo on one side and the Self-Portrait and Portrait of Fedra Inghirami by Raphael, in a symbolic way to introduce the great exhibition, divided into seven sections.The first, for the celebration of the beginning of the century, with the pontificates of Julius II della Rovere and Leo X, offers portraits of Raphael from the Capodimonte Museum and Michelangelo's preparatory drawings lent by the Uffizi. The second is dedicated to the worship and study of the Ancient by artists of the time, and also includes the beautiful drawing by Raphael in the Pantheon. A series of portraits to illustrate the comparison, in the next step, the way in which art addresses the key characters of a burial of an era, one that follows the Sack of Rome in 1527.The third section focuses on the time of the pontificate of Pope Paul III Farnese, between 1534 and 1549, the renaissance of the city, culminating with the creation of the fresco of the Sistine Chapel. The proposed time frame also coincides with the evolution of an important architectural project: the reconstruction of the Basilica of St. Peter, to whom is dedicated the fifth section. Shows a close the window on the first mannerist, imitators and followers of the two masters, and decorative objects of daily use of the time that over the years have been invested themselves of considerable artistic aura.