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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00:03 A lot of people, when they're thinking of Michelangelo,
00:28 will think of the early works.
00:29 So David, the Sistine Chapel ceiling, that sort of thing.
00:33 And it's easy for people to forget
00:35 that he goes on working until the age of almost 89.
00:38 And the later works show quite a different side to him,
00:42 much more introspective, much more thoughtful.
00:45 We get to see more of him as a person,
00:48 coming to terms with these very universal human feelings
00:51 that we all face as we get older.
00:57 Michelangelo could be quite a difficult person sometimes.
01:00 We know a great deal about what he was like,
01:02 because we have 500 letters of his that survive in total.
01:05 We're including some of them in the show.
01:08 And we also include some letters that he
01:10 wrote to his nephew, who bore the brunt of his temperament
01:13 on numerous occasions.
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01:17 I think there's a perception that creativity is something
01:32 which happens when someone is young, when they're still
01:35 finding their feet and experimenting.
01:37 Whereas I think what this exhibition makes clear
01:39 is that even after the age of 60,
01:41 and for a long time after that, artists
01:44 can remain incredibly creative and innovative,
01:46 and can take on new and really challenging projects.
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