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We only had a long weekend to do the city and so your tour really helped us get our bearings. There's just so much to see there! I know we only scraped the surface but it worked really well for us.
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This was a great tour that took you everywhere you needed to go. Particularly liked the walk through of the mosaic frescoes on the front of the Basilica. We had a great time in Venice, made all the more special by this evocative guide. Like the speaker's voice too - one of the best I've listened to.
Andrea How - (19/02/06)

VIENNA - MIchelangelo at the Albertina

In a major exhibition, the Albertina in Vienna will present around one hundred of the most beautiful drawings by Michelangelo.

  Our very popular Florence audio guide talks about the importance of Michelangelo to the city and to the history of art in general.

  Works from the Graphic Arts Collection of the Albertina, as well as important loans from museums and private collections in Europe and the United States, will offer a hitherto unparalleled overview of the great Florentine’s entire oeuvre.

  As a former imperial capital, Vienna is a treasure trove of great works of art.  Our mp3 tour of Vienna and its Imperial city shows those on a city break the best locations and explains their history while our other Vienna audio tour shows some of the older artistic beauties of the city.
  The focus at the Albertina will be on the figural drawings by Michelangelo, who will be introduced here as the genius of a period of change, with his versatile talents as a draftsman, painter, architect, and sculptor.
  The show traces Michelangelo’s career from the artist’s juvenile works and designs for The Battle of Cascina to the world-famous frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, the ingenious drawings he presented to Tommaso de’ Cavalieri, and the Crucifixion scenes dating from the artist’s late period, when he was almost eighty years old. At the same time, new clues as to the dating of individual works will be provided.

  Projections of the monumental ceiling frescoes, the incorporation of plaster casts of Michelangelo’s sculptures, as well as paintings by other artists based on the master’s designs are meant to illustrate the dimensions and impact of his art. New paths of didactic presentation will be forged through a documentation of contemporary history and the artist’s environment.

 MICHELANGELO

THE DRAWINGS OF A GENIUS

8 October 2010 - 9 January 2011

The Albertina, Vienna



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