Exhibit curator Nat Silver said he had the idea of accompanying Botticelli’s paintings with today’s preferred format for visual storytelling -- cartooning and graphic novels -- as a way to increase the relevance and popularity of the exhibit with younger audiences. Botticelli and Stevens both work in the visual storytelling idiom of their time. Silver says the museum scaled up the original drawings to monumental wall hangings as part of the installation. Combining a contemporary cartooning with classical visual storytelling isn’t just good curation, it’s also good business. That includes challenging the long-standing cultural and class distinctions between elite fine art and more popular-based styles like comics.

Source: Forbes February 13, 2019 14:05 UTC