The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Venue Partner)
1000 Fifth Ave at 82nd St
212.535.7710
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Head of Julius Caesar
- When
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May 12, 2010 – Sep 19, 2010
Daily
- Where
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Directions: Main Building: Take the 4, 5, or 6 train to 86th Street and walk to Fifth Avenue; OR take the M1, M2, M3, or M4 bus along Fifth Avenue. The Cloisters: Take the A train to 190th Street and walk, or transfer to the M4 bus and ride north one stop.
- Price
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Free with museum admission
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This exhibition presents 70 extraordinary works by masters of the 16th through 18th centuries, from one of the outstanding collections of Italian Old Master drawings in private hands. Extraordinary in its variety, the collection includes figure studies, historical and mythological narratives, landscapes, botanicals, motifs copied after the antique, and designs for painted compositions. All the principal centers of Italian art—Florence, Rome, Naples, Bologna, Parma, Venice, Genoa, Milan—are represented by an impressive roster of great draftsmen, such as Correggio, Bernini, Guercino, Guido Reni, Canaletto, and Tiepolo.
Image: Andrea del Sarto (Florence 1486-1530 Florence). Study for the Head of Julius Caesar, Ca. 1520-1521. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Partial and Promised Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David M. Tobey, 2008 (2008.367)
