Michelangelo & Sebastiano
Fantastic exhibition at the National Gallery looking at the friendship and working relationship between Michelangelo and Sebastiano del Piombo. This was a well presented and thought through show which set out the narrative clearly with good commentaries. Huge thanks to the Gallery for bringing back the booklets with the picture descriptions which really help the flow through the rooms. There was good use of letters to tell the story as well as drawings to highlight the collaboration. I was surprised at how much of Michelangelo’s work was in the show and had assumed it would just be the National Gallery’s own pictures and a few drawings. The use of the good copy of the Vatican’s Pieta was clever and it was so nice to be able to view it from all sides and see how the sides were worked. You usually view it from the front in a horrible crush of people. There was also a good collection of Sebastiano’s work including the Gallery’s own huge Razing of Lazarus with the Michela...