This exhibition, “Italian Renaissance Drawings from the British Museum” is the first collaboration between Suzhou Museum and the British Museum, presenting a unique opportunity to appreciate Renaissance art in China, the cradle of rinascita papermakingThe artistic Renaissance, with its centre in Florence, flourished from about 1400 to 1600. Probably the first to use“rinascita”, the Italian term for “Renaissance”, was the Italian painter and art historian Giorgio Vasari from Arezzo,who first published in 1550 The Lives of the...