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Genius of Michelangelo in his final years on display at British Museum

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Video. British Museum show explores final decades of Michelangelo's life

Updated: 02/05/2024 - 11:00 GMT+2

Among the exhibition's highlights is Michelangelo's sole surviving complete cartoon (Epifania), a full-scale preparatory drawing, which is one of the largest Renaissance works on paper.

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