Italian Exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art since 1941

Italian Eighteenth-Century Prints
28 February-21 May 1945

Michelangelo's David, from the Bargello Museum, Florence
24 January-28 June 1949

Early Italian Engravings
17 April-19 June 1949

Renaissance Prints
24 October 1954-6 February 1955

Italian Drawings: Masterpieces from Five Centuries
9 October-6 November 1960

Etchings and Drawings by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
15 September-2 November 1961

Tiepolo Drawings
17 September-15 October 1961

Etchings by G.B. Tiepolo, G.D. Tiepolo, and Canaletto
27 October 1962-11 June 1963

Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci
8 January-3 February 1963

Hercules and the Hydra and Hercules and Antaeus by Antonio del Pollaiuolo
4 February-10 February 1963

Eighteenth-Century Venetian Drawings from the Correr Museum
27 October-24 November 1963

Eighteenth-Century Venetian Etchings from the National Gallery of Art Collection
27 October-24 November 1963

Piranesi Etchings of Prisons and Views of Rome from the National Gallery of Art Collection
4 November 1964-18 April 1965

Piranesi Etchings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art
13 August 1966-30 March 1967

Canaletto and Bellotto Etchings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art
12 October 1966-24 April 1967

Ingres in Rome
24 January-21 February 1971

G.B. Piranesi: Etchings of Prisons, Views of Rome from the National Gallery of Art Collection
5 May-28 July 1971

La Scala: 400 Years of Stage Design from the Museo Teatrale alla Scala, Milan
11 September-17 October 1971

Rare Etchings by G.B. and G.D. Tiepolo
25 January-23 April 1972

Prints of the Italian Renaissance
24 June-7 October 1973

Venetian Views: Etchings by Canaletto and Whistler
12 July-26 December 1973

Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings from the Collection of Janos Scholz
23 September-25 November 1973

Art in the Age of Francesco Petrarca
6-13 April 1974

Venetian Drawings from American Collections
29 September-24 November 1974

Titian and the Venetian Woodcut
30 October 1976-2 January 1977

Piranesi: The Early Architectural Fantasies
1 June-30 September 1978

Berenson and the Connoisseurship of Italian Painting
21 January-3 September 1979

Prints and Related Drawings by the Carracci Family
18 March-20 May 1979

From Leonardo to Titian: Italian Renaissance Paintings from the Hermitage, Leningrad
13 May-24 June 1979

Italian Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago
9 December 1979-2 March 1980

Italian Drawings 1780-1890
16 March-11 May 1980

The Drawings of Andrea Palladio
17 May-5 July 1981

Sixteenth-Century Italian Maiolica from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection and the National Gallery of Art's Widener Collection
5 September 1982-9 January 1983 (extended from 2 January)

Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire 1540-1680: A Selection from North American Collections
30 January-10 April 1983

Painting in Naples from Caravaggio to Giordano
13 February-1 May 1983

Piazzetta: A Tercentenary Exhibition of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books
20 November 1983-4 March 1984 (extended from 26 February)

Leonardo's Last Supper: Before and After
18 December 1983-4 March 1984

Caravaggio's Deposition from the Vatican
4 March-29 April 1984

The Legacy of Correggio: Sixteenth-Century Emilian Drawings
11 March-13 May 1984

Renaissance Drawings from the Ambrosiana, 1370-1600
12 August-7 October 1984

Leonardo da Vinci Drawings of Horses from the Royal Library at Windsor Castle
24 February-9 June 1985

Leonardo to Van Gogh: Master Drawings from Budapest
12 May-14 July 1985

Titian: The Flaying of Marsyas
17 January-20 April 1986

Baroque Paintings from the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
6 April-29 September 1986

Renaissance Master Bronzes from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
17 August-30 November 1986

The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
19 December 1986-16 February 1987

Donatello at Close Range
3 April-15 June 1987

Italian Master Drawings from the British Royal Collection
10 May-26 July 1987

Rosso Fiorentino: Drawings, Prints, and Decorative Arts
25 October 1987-3 January 1988

Titian's Saint Sebastian
6 December 1987-17 February 1988

Michelangelo: Draftsman/Architect
9 October-11 December 1988

The Pastoral Landscape: The Legacy of Venice
6 November 1988-22 January 1989

The Art of Paolo Veronese, 1528-1588
13 November 1988-20 February 1989

Italian Etchers of the Renaissance and Baroque: Parmigianino to Giordano
24 September-26 November 1989

Reinstallation of Bellini/Titian Feast of the Gods
14 January-13 May 1990 (extended from 29 April 1990)

Selected Baroque Paintings from Italian Banks
26 September-26 November 1990 (extended from 11 November)

Titian, Prince of Painters
28 October 1990-27 January 1991

Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints
25 November 1990-27 May 1991

Italian Drawings from the Armand Hammer Collection
17 November 1991-10 May 1992

Guercino: Master Painter of the Baroque
15 March-17 May 1992

Guercino: Drawings from Windsor Castle
15 March-17 May 1992

Giambologna's Cesarini Venus
26 September 1993-15 May 1994

Italian Drawings from the Armand Hammer Collection
14 November 1993-8 May 1994

The Currency of Fame: Portrait Medals of the Renaissance
23 January-1 May 1994

Hans Memling's Saint John the Baptist and Saint Veronica
30 January-15 May 1994

Italian Renaissance Architecture: Brunelleschi, Sangallo, Michelangelo--The Cathedrals of Florence and Pavia and Saint Peter's, Rome
18 December 1994-16 April 1995

The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century
29 January-23 April 1995

A Great Heritage: Renaissance and Baroque Drawings from Chatsworth
8 October-31 December 1995

Italian Drawings from the Armand Hammer Collection
19 November 1995-5 May 1996

In the Light of Italy: Corot and Early Open-Air Painting
26 May-2 September 1996

Masterpieces from the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj, Rome
16 June-2 September 1996

Michelangelo and His Influence: Drawings from Windsor Castle
27 October 1996-5 January 1997

Lorenzo Lotto: Rediscovered Master of the Renaissance
2 November 1997-1 March 1998

Bernini's Rome: Italian Baroque Terracottas from the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
11 October 1998-18 January 1999

Caravaggio's The Taking of Christ: Saints and Sinners in Baroque Painting
30 May-18 July 1999

The Drawings of Annibale Carracci
26 September 1999-9 January 2000

The Fantastic in Renaissance Prints and Drawings
6 February-16 April 2000

Raphael and His Circle: Drawings from Windsor Castle
14 May-23 July 2000

The Triumph of the Baroque: Architecture in Europe 1600-1750
21 May-9 October 2000

Italian Drawings from the Armand Hammer Collection
16 November 2000-13 May 2001

Virtue and Beauty: Leonardo's "Ginevra de Benci" and Renaissance Portraits of Women
30 September 2001-6 January 2002

The Flowering of Florence: Botanical Art for the Medici
3 March-27 May 2002

Italian Drawings from the Armand Hammer Collection
10 November 2002-5 May 2003

Verrocchio's "David" Restored:
A Renaissance Bronze from the National Museum of the Bargello, Florence
13 February-21 March, 2004

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