Watch a video showing the conservation of a Michelangelo drawing on loan from Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford, in preparation for the exhibition Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer. Marjorie Shelley, Sherman Fairchild conservator in charge of paper conservation, guides us through the complex and delicate process of restoring this magnificent architectural drawing.

https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2017/michelangelo

Featured work:
Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, 1475-1564).
Designs for an altar or monumental facade, possibly for San Silvestro in Capite, Rome.
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, black chalk, stylus ruler and compass construction (recto), black chalk, some black chalk rules (verso).
Courtesy of the Governing Body of Christ Church, Oxford (0992; JBS 64)

Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer is on view at the Met Fifth Avenue from November 13, 2017 to February 12, 2018.

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Supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies.

Director: Kate Farrell
Editor: Sarah Cowan
Producer: Mélissa Bell
Camera: Wayne de la Roche, Sarah Cowan, Dia Felix
Lighting: Dia Félix
Production coordinator: Kaelan Burkett
Production Assistants: Bryan Martin, Stephanie Wuertz
Original music: Austin Fisher

2017 The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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