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Landmark new British Museum Michelangelo exhibition to explore the titan's 'demanding' final decades

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Michelangelo’s Epifania, the master’s extraordinary, two-metre-high preparatory drawing, is not only one of the largest Renaissance works on paper, but is his only complete surviving pre-fresco drawing.

Undergoing meticulous conservation since 2018, the gigantic work will finally being unveiled this spring as part of a landmark opening at.

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