Drawing the Italian Renaissance at the King’s Gallery

Name: Drawing the Italian Renaissance
Start: 2024-11-01
End: 2025-03-09
Location: King’s Gallery

Where? King’s Gallery, Buckingham Gate Road When? 1st November 2024 to 9th March 2025 10 AM to 5.30 PM (Mon & Thu-Sun); Last entry 1¼ hours before closing Price? Adult £19; Child (5-17) £9.50 · See rct.uk Parking: Nearby car parks Buses: 11, 211, C1, C10 Bus fares Trains: The closest station is St. James’s Park Circle District Other nearby stations: Victoria Train fares

The King's Gallery is bringing together 160 works by over 80 artists from the Italian Renaissance - a revolutionary period that included Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian.

Detail of The Virgin and Child with the young St John by Michelangelo: 1532

The gallery holds one of the world's great collections of Italian Renaissance drawings, and the exhibition will chart the dramatic transformation in the way that artists viewed the artform, elevating it from a simple workshop tool to an exciting art form in its own right.

Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael

Detail of A Children's Bacchanal by Michelangelo: 1533

Highights include Michelangelo's chalk drawing for The Risen Christ - an anatomical study that depicts him leaping in joy as he celebrates his resurrected life - alongside dissection drawings that examine the muscles and tendons of a human leg.

Study for The Three Graces by Raphael: 1517–18

Also on show is Raphael's The Three Graces, a red chalk drawing of a woman posing for a Roman villa's fresco. It's possible that she might be the very woman that Raphael fell head over heels in love with, becaming too distracted to complete his work.