Venues:
Peggy Guggenheim Collection.
Vienna: Albertina, July 15–October 10, 2004;
Bilbao: Guggenheim Bilbao Museum, November 30, 2004–March 2005.

Curator:
Achim Gnann.

Concept:
Klaus Albrecht Schröder and Achim Gnann.

Artists:
Niccolò dell’Abate, Baccio Bandinelli, Fra Bartolomeo, Bartolomeo Veneto, Domenico Beccafumi, Francesco Bonsignori, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Ugo da Carpi, Correggio, Francesco Francia, Giovanni da Udine, Giulio Romano, Leonardo da Vinci, Bernardino Luini, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Parmigianino, Pordenone, Francesco Primaticcio, Raffaellino del Garbo, Marcantonio Raimondi, Rosso Fiorentino, Francesco Salviati, Raphael Santi, Andrea del Sarto, Perino del Vaga, Giorgio Vasari, and Daniele da Volterra.

Exhibition description:
The Era of Michelangelo. Masterpieces from the Albertina presented seventy of the most important sixteenth century Italian drawings and prints in the collections of the Albertina, Vienna. The exhibition focused on Michelangelo’s revolution of the artist’s conception of the human figure. His long life, 1475-1564, set the time frame for this survey, which included works by Michelangelo but also by his Italian contemporaries, with examples from the High Renaissance and Mannerism in Florence and Rome, as well as in Milan, Perugia, Parma, Naples, Cremona, Genoa, Bologna and Mantua. First Fra Bartolomeo and then Raphael were quick to apprehend the changes introduced by Michelangelo, abandoning the static and graceful representation of the body that characterized early Renaissance in favor of a heroic figure orchestrated in complex and dynamic compositions. The show therefore narrated the manner in which this High Renaissance style spread through Italy, and by developing its expressive and artificial elements, the way in which it transformed into Italian Mannerism.

Catalogue:
Gnann, Achim. The Era of Michelangelo. Masterpieces from the Albertina. Milan: Electa, 2004.

Three catalogues, in Italian, English and German. Catalogues include preface by Thomas Krens (Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation), foreword and acknowledgments by Klaus Albrecht Schröder (Director, Albertina), introduction by Achim Gnann, and full catalogue with descriptive entries. Catalogues also include an appendix with biographies and bibliography.

Library location: GUGG PGC 2004 .03 (English), GUGG PGC 2004 .01 (Italian), GUGG PGC 2004 .02 (German).