La Forma del Rinascimento. Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia, Rome, until September 5th, by Daniel Gallagher

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Aeolus, or Sea Breeze, attributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti

There is more to the exhibit currently underway at the Palazzo di Venezia than meets the eye. What it lacks in size it makes up for in importance. Composed mainly of statuary and reliefs by Donatello, Andrea Bregno, Michelangelo and their pupils, it focuses on the underappreciated stylistic transition that took place from 1460 to 1520 in Roman workshops as they moved, roughly speaking, from the purity of classicism, to the sublimity of humanism, to the energy of Renaissance rationalism.

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Michael Miller