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| Michelangelo, 'The Virgin and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist ('The Taddei Tondo')', about 1504–05 © Royal Academy of Arts, London |
LONDON---Through January, there is unique opportunity to explore the complex relationship between three giants of Renaissance art in a special display at the National Gallery. Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael around 1500 brings together eight works by
Leonardo da Vinci,
Michelangelo Buonarroti, and Raffaello Santi, or
Raphael; three artists who were keenly aware of each other’s work and at times intensely rivalrous. Together they are credited as fathers of a new, dynamic, monumental, and psychologically incisive approach to art – the High Renaissance. The centrepiece of this free display is
The Virgin and Child with the Infant Saint John, also known as the
Taddei Tondo (1504–05). [
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