A major exhibition on Renaissance sculpture from Donatello to Michelangelo at the Louvre

Opening tomorrow at the Louvre is the exhibition Le Corps et l’Âme. De Donatello à Michel-Ange. Sculptures italiennes de la Renaissance, scheduled until January 18, 2021. With 140 works, the exhibition, organized in collaboration with Milan’s Castello Sforzesco, aims to trace the history of Italian Renaissance sculpture from Donatello to Michelangelo. Once the Louvre exhibition is over, the show will move right to Castello Sforzesco, from March 5 to June 6, 2021.

Centered on the human figure, as well as on expressiveness and feeling in Renaissance sculpture, the exhibition, curated by Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi, Francesca Tasso and Marc Bormand, promises to lead the public to discover lesser-known artists and works that are difficult to access because of the places where they are located (churches, small towns, warehouses) in order to place them in a context aimed at highlighting the main themes of Italian art from the second half of the 15th century up to Michelangelo.

The exhibition is divided into three sections (“Fury and Grace,” “Moving and Convincing,” and “From Dionysus to Apollo”) and also exhibits important loans from international museums: for example, from the Metropolitan Museum in New York comes the Cupid Archer attributed to Michelangelo (circa 1497), Donatello’s Crucifix and Pollaiolo’s Hercules and Antheus, both from the Bargello. Also on display are two of Michelangelo’s Prisoners from the Louvre, which underwent a test to ascertain that their state of preservation would permit their brief move, that is, from the Galleries Michel-Ange, where they are usually located, to the Hall Napoléon, the exhibition venue.

There are also paintings in the exhibition, such as Bramantino’s Risen Christ, Cosmè Tura’s Pietà, and the fresco Deposition of Christ in the Tomb. As mentioned, also on loan are works from smaller museums, such as Andrea Della Robbia’s Saint Sebastian, preserved in the Civic and Diocesan Museum of Montalcino and restored for the occasion at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence.

For more information you can visit the Louvre website.

Image: Tullio Lombardo, Young Couple or Bacchus and Ariadne (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum)

A major exhibition on Renaissance sculpture from Donatello to Michelangelo at the Louvre

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