China Embraces Renaissance Art

SINCH the beginning of this year, novel posters depicting a terra-cotta warrior and Michelangelo’s David greeting each other in their respective tongues have appeared all over Beijing, heralding the arrival of the Italian Culture Year in China. It opened on January 21 with the highly anticipated Renaissance Art Show, which ran till April 23 at the capital’s Millennium Monument’s World Art Museum. During the exhibition, some 86 original