Sketches from the birth of a golden age - Times Online: "The British Museum plays host to a highly illustrious gathering. Here, unfurling in its latest show, one after the other, are works by the most famous masters of the Italian Renaissance. Here is the grand creative dream of a magical time when, amid a patchwork of competitive principalities and quarrelsome city states, art found a new impetus, a fresh vision, a vital force that would carry it forward into an exalted future."
