For more news and videos visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.com<br />Follow us on Twitter ☛ http://twitter.com/NTDTelevision<br />Add us on Facebook ☛ http://facebook.com/NTDTelevision<br /><br />Museums from Berlin and New York collaborate to show off their latest collection - the faces of the Italian Renaissance. The exhibit will be open until November in Berlin before heading off to New York city.<br /><br />New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (MoMA) teamed up with Germany's major museums to put on a stunning exhibit on portrait art from Renaissance Italy.<br /><br />On Wednesday journalists were given a sneak preview of the exhibit, which shows off some of Italy's greatest painters, the day before the official opening.<br /><br />[Keith Christiansen, Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York]:<br />"Berlin has a great solid section, a selection of portraits, paintings, medals, sculptures as does the Metropolitan. And we felt that if we put out holdings together, we could use this as a basis for then going to other museums and asking for loans which otherwise neither of us could hope to get."<br /><br />The exhibition demonstrates the evolution of Italian portraits during the 15th century with some 170 pieces of work including paintings, sculptures and sketches.<br /><br />One of the highlights of the exhibit is Leonardo da Vinci's "Lady with an Ermine" from 1489/90, which has been lent by the Prince of Krakow.<br /><br />[Prince Adam Karol Czartoryski of Krakow, Owner of "Lady with an Ermine"]:<br />"The first time I saw her, I saw a photograph because it was during the previous government in Poland and everything had been confiscated so the only thing I saw of the lady was the photograph but then when I saw it personally in Krakow in the 90's, it was amazing."<br /><br />It's the third time the MoMA and Berlin's State Museums have collaborated.<br /><br />The exhibition will be open from August 25 until November 20 in Berlin's Bode Museum.
