Picturing Venus in the Renaissance Print

Renaissance art is defined by its engagement with the translation of artistic culture from Antiquity. If the forms and subjects of this relay of culture have preoccupied art historians since the foundation of the discipline, the technical means and methods of artistic transfer have been neglected. This exhibition focuses on artistic relations between the Renaissance invention of printmaking and the discovery of what would become Europe's best-known antique sculptures, to retell the story of Renaissance art in terms of print's wide and rapid diffusion of antique sculpture's most celebrated forms.