Multiplied Wonders: Italian Renaissance Woodcuts

The exhibition _Multiplied Wonders: Italian Renaissance Woodcuts_, currently on view at the [British Museum](https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/multiplied-wonders-italian-renaissance-woodcuts), stems from the research and cataloguing carried out by the Atlante delle xilografie italiane del Rinascimento (Atlas of Italian Renaissance Woodcuts), a project of the [Institute of Art History](https://www.cini.it/en/institutes-and-centres/art-history/) at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, curated by Laura Aldovini, David Landau and Silvia Urbini, which celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. The exhibition is conceived as a journey through Italy, exploring the production of woodcuts in three chapters devoted to the principal stylistic schools of the Italian Renaissance — the Venetian, Tuscan-Roman and Emilian schools. The final chapter, The Woodcuts in Everyday Life, focuses instead on the types and functions of prints. A significant part of woodcut production, in fact, extended beyond the more conventional spheres of printmaking — those of devotion and humanist culture, with their sacred and mythological subjects — to meet the most diverse needs of Renaissance life, from history to geography, from games to decoration. The exhibition also includes a special focus on monumental prints. Just as the census filled a gap in art-historical research, so too the exhibition marks an unprecedented development: never before has such a comprehensive exhibition been devoted to these materials.