The Getty is holding an exhibit on “ Mind of the Master” through June 7. Michaelangelo, meanwhile, is getting a deep treatment of his drawings in Los Angeles. Eric Vandeville / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, exhibited at the Louvre in Paris. Raphael is the subject of major exhibitions overseas this year (including this one), which come on the heels of a blockbuster Leonardo show that’s just wound down at the Louvre in Paris. This year marks 500 years since Raphael’s death, and Washington’s National Gallery of Art, which has the most impressive collection of his paintings in the nation, is holding an exhibition of prints and drawings called “ Raphael and His Circle” through June 14. It’s an important time to ask this question, since a whirlwind of activity is surrounding the artists and allowing for new consideration of their work. Did the TMNT cartoon empire do us a service by engraving these figures in our collective consciousness, or did it lead us astray? And if so, who should make the quadripartite cut instead? Given that these names are now synonymous with Renaissance art - and, to some, the totality of its artistic masters - it’s important to investigate whether they really are the epitome of the Renaissance canon. Musicality of Italian names aside, a vital question remains: Did they make the right choice? Are Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, Raffaello Sanzio and Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (aka Donatello) really the unimpeachable top of the Renaissance class, or are they mere clickbait? The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, in the Vatican Museum in Rome. What’s less well-known is that Kevin Eastman, who started the comic with Peter Laird, wanted Bernini, his favorite sculptor, to be included in the group, but Laird convinced him Donatello rolled off the tongue better. The animated rodent named the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles after Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael. Most people who didn’t study art history in graduate school can still reel off four superstar Renaissance artists - the titans whose names the cartoon rat Splinter found in a battered art book he fished from a storm drain after rescuing four baby turtles covered in radioactive ooze.
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