Hugo Chapman, Exhibition Curator
As curator of the soon-to-open exhibition, Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian Renaissance drawings I’ll be writing weekly about what’s happening behind the scenes as the show takes shape before it opens to the public on 22 April.
The exhibition consists of a hundred of the greatest Italian fifteenth-century drawings from the British Museum and the Uffizi in Florence.
The process of selection from the two best collections of Renaissance drawings came close to fulfilling my childhood dream of being locked in a sweet shop… the difference being that I was picking out Leonardos, not sherbet dib dabs.
For the last three years I’ve imagined how the drawings would look in the soaring space of the Reading Room. This week we’ve started to hang the drawings, so finally the waiting is over.
Will the drawings that I thought would work so well together turn out to be good neighbours? Time will tell.
Next week I’ll be back with an insider’s peek at the exhibition installation.
Hope you enjoy following our progress.
Filed under: Exhibitions, Italian Renaissance drawings, behind the scenes, Drawings, Exhibition, Renaissance
