CURRENTLY at The Courtauld

Michelangelo's Dream

18 February - 16 May 2010

Michelangelo’s masterpiece The Dream is one of the greatest of all Renaissance

drawings. This complex work shows a nude youth being roused by a winged spirit

from the vices that surround him.

The Dream was probably part of the celebrated group of drawings which Michelangelo made as gifts for Tommaso de' Cavalieri, a young Roman nobleman with whom he had fallen passionately in love. With loans from international collections, the exhibition unites The Dream for the first time with these extraordinary drawings.

Michelangelo’s Dream also includes a selection of previously unexhibited handwritten

poems which the artist composed for Cavalieri. Further closely related drawings by

Michelangelo as well as works by Albrecht Dürer and others will shed light on the meaning of Michelangelo’s enigmatic masterpiece.

Accompanying the exhbition will be the full resources we offer to teachers, lecturers and educators including Teachers Packs, Online Videos, Podcasts and free exhibition in context leafelts. There will also be a special series of events focussing on the exhibition including gallery talks, late events in the gallery, gallery music events, focussed school projects and creative links with partner Higher Education Institutions.

Find out about the special event series

Watch three movies about the exhibition

Listen to five podcasts of sonnets by Michelangelo

To download a copy of the free gallery leaflet on paper and paper conservation click below

Works on Paper: Michelangelo's Dream in context


The teachers resource will be available to download for free on 11 March 2010 after the teachers preview event. Please note the teachers preview is fully booked.
For details please contact Joff Whitten:
t: 0207 848 2705 e: joff.whitten@courtauld.ac.uk

Previous ExhibitionS In The Courtauld Gallery

Frank Auerbach: London Building Sites 1952-62

16 October 2009 - 17 January 2010

This was the first exhibition to bring together the seminal group of paintings of London building sites by Frank Auerbach (born 1931). These extraordinary paintings are among the most important contributions to post-war painting in Britain.

Accompanying the exhbition were the full resources we offer to teachers, lecturers and educators including Teachers Packs, online videos, podcasts, free gallery leafelts, gallery talks and gallery music events.

The exhibition reunited the complete series of building site paintings together with rarely seen oil sketches and a number of recently rediscovered sketchbook drawings. The works are among the most important contributions to post-war painting in Britain, produced at a time when Auerbach emerged alongside Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud as part of a powerful new generation of British painters. More about the exhibition

A special event series accompanied this exhibition. More about the exhibition events

Watch three movies about the exhibition

Listen to five podcasts of Frank Auerbach talking about his early work

To download a copy of the Auerbach Teachers' Resource pack click below

FRANK AUERBACH: LONDON BUILDING SITES 1952-62 TEACHERS RESOURCE

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