Many historical exhibitions tend to be collections of whatever the museum in question can get their hands on, loosely united around a period, a theme, or the name of a famous artist. The exhibition that has just finished at the Bunkamura ¡°Money and Beauty: Botticelli and the Renaissance in Florence¡± was rather like that. If done well, this approach can still provide an entertaining and interesting show, but much more satisfying is a concept like that behind the show at the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum.
Titled ¡°Leonardo da Vinci and The Battle of Anghiari: The Mystery of Tavola Doria,¡± it is both an exhibition of Renaissance art and something of a detective mystery that brings together the two biggest artistic names of that period ¡ª Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.
The ¡°detective¡± part of the show is an attempt to reconstruct two expansive battle paintings that Leonardo and Michelangelo are known to have worked on, using a number of suggestive fragments, sketches and copies by other artists.
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