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Now playing Next Art British Museum show explores final decades of Michelangelo's life 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. 02/05/2024
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