The Drawing Center

Creative Copies: Interpretative Drawings from Michelangelo to Picasso brought together sixty-nine drawings spanning the sixteenth through the early twentieth centuries to explore the phenomenon of one artist copying the work of another. All of the drawings in the exhibition were copies, variations, or interpretations of other works of art, ranging from the sculpture of classical antiquity to the work of immediate predecessors. The exhibition was organized by Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann and included works by Michelangelo, Masaccio, Durer, Mantegna, Rembrandt, Leonardo, Delacroix, Rubens, Ingres, and Holbein, among others.