ALBERTINA, Vienna
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Male back nude, c. 1504, black chalk, heightened in white
Vienna, Albertina: »Michelangelo and Beyond«
The rebirth of the dynamic body
During the Renaissance, Michelangelo Buonarroti, called »the Divine«, was considered the measure of art during his lifetime. Praises and rejections have followed in the centuries since, but no one could ignore his work. In Michelangelo and Beyond, the ALBERTINA in Vienna illuminates the artist's influence on the representation of the human nude. The show begins on September 15.
September 14, 2023
The exhibition Michelangelo and Beyond of the ALBERTINA in Vienna spans from the Renaissance to the modern era. Through drawings, prints, and sculptures, visitors learn how Michelangelo took the representation of the human nude to unimagined heights and how subsequent artists engaged with his work. With dynamic representations of the body and foreshortening, Michelangelo fascinated his contemporaries time and time again and is considered the forerunner of Mannerism. Here, for the first time, the idea emerged that an artist should develop his individual style instead of an academic ideal style. The exhibition, which is well worth seeing, will be on display from September 15, 2023 to January 14, 2024.
Contemporaries of the famous artist such as Raphael and Albrecht Dürer are represented here, as are subsequent greats, including Rembrandt van Rijn, Anton Raphael Mengs, Peter Paul Rubens, François Boucher, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele. By juxtaposing their imitation, further development, or rejection of Michelangelo's ideas, the latter's revolutionary spirit is made clear. Finally, modernism saw the decline of the ideal body image, as exemplified by Klimt and Schiele.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1924, inv. no. 24.197.2, Foto: © bpk / The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Studies for the Libyan Sibyl, c. 1510/11, Red chalk
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