The week in art: Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael; Drawing the Italian Renaissance – review

Royal Academy; King’s Gallery, London
A trio of Renaissance masters look over each other’s shoulders in Florence 1504, while a parallel show of drawings from the Royal Collection gets to the very heart of their artIt’s 25 January 1504, and so cold in Florence that the Arno river is about to freeze over. Thirty men meet in an icy room to decide where to position a giant statue of a little hero somewhere outdoors in public view. Among them are Botticelli, Leonardo and Filippino L