Back in the spring of 1988, we opened “Creative Copies: Interpretive Drawings from Michelangelo to Picasso”, an exhibit featuring sixty nine drawings spanning the 16th through the early 20th centuries and exploring the phenomenon of one artist copying the work of another. All of the drawings exhibited were copies, variations, or interpretations of other works of art ranging from paintings from the Old Masters to modern sculptures. The drawings hanging on our walls connected artists working across 500 years: we had drawings made by #Leonardo after #Michelangelo, #Rubens after #Titian, #Delacroix after #Duhrer, #Degas after #Raphael, #Cezanne after #vanDyck, #Picasso after #Renoir, among others. The show revealed the value of copying as a major conduit to creativity and artistic formation as it constitutes a dialogue between the interpreter and the interpreted. #TBT #CreativeCopies #Drawings Image: Sir Peter Paul Rubens, “Hercules and the Nemean Lion” (after woodcuts by Boldrini and V...