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In its major autumn exhibition «Michelangelo and Beyond», the ALBERTINA presents the emergence, power, significance and decline of a canon enduringly defined by Michelangelo and his nudes at the beginning of the 16th century.
This Renaissance master is at the center of this exhibition, because he is alone in his understanding of the new vision of a dynamic body.
The rediscovery of Michelangelo’s ancient Greco-Roman idea of the ideal living body led to groundbreaking advances in the depiction of human anatomy.
As a result, new standards have been set in terms of proportion, contour, volume, shortening and movement.This exhibition presents the most significant and beau- tiful works belonging to the ALBERTINA of the artistic representation of the human body from the Renaissance to the beginning of the 20th century.
The Italian artist Rafael had a similar understanding of the ideal athletic body to that of Michelangelo. The German artist Albrecht Durer had a different vision of the human nude and meticulously erected his own rules.
Ugo da Carpi
Diogenes, c. 1527 Chiaroscuro woodcut from four blocks The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna