(Paris, FRA) - Italian Renaissance masters Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo come face to face for the first time with a new exhibition at Rome's Capitoline Museums focusing on both their drawings and Roman works.
The display, running until February 12, takes a leading place in a packed month of cultural activity across Europe in November.
Among other highlights, the US dancer David Hallberg makes his stage debut at Russia's Bolshoi and African photography stars at the Paris Photo Fair
More masterpieces by Michelangelo along with works by Raphael feature in an exhibition at the Fondazione Roma museum, exploring the 16th century's artistic course from High Renaissance to religious spirituality.
Leonardo da Vinci also has a second exhibition, in London, where a show at the National Gallery career focusses on his time as a court painter in Milan, working for the city's ruler Ludovico Maria Sforza, known as il Moro (the Moor) in the 1480s and 1490s.
The National Gallery says the event will feature the largest ever number of the artist's surviving paintings, including the gallery's own recently restored "Virgin of the Rocks".
In Vienna, more than 150 works by Rene Magritte go on show at the Albertina in Vienna, showcasing all the Belgian artist's creative phases and addressing hitherto little-explored aspects of his life and artistic activity. From November 9 to February 26.
Meanwhile, German Christian Thielemann conducts a new production of Wagner's four-opera "Ring" cycle at the Vienna State Opera. "Das Rheingold" on November 1, "Die Walkuere" on November 6, "Siegfried" on November 9 and "Goetterdaemmerung" on November 13.
The Cite des Science in Paris wants you to "Meet the Gauls". Feisty forest-dwellers in winged helmets, with a fondness for roast boar and Roman-bashing? Not quite. Drawing on three decades of archaeology, "Les Gaulois" debunks popular myths about the Celtic people, revealing them to be sophisticated farmers, traders and craftsmen.
African photography, from Bamako to Cape Town, is guest of honour at the annual Paris Photo fair, bringing together 117 galleries from 23 countries under the glass-and-steel vaults of the capital's Grand Palais, for a panorama of world photography from the 19th century to the present day. From November 10 to 13.
An exhibition of photos taken in New York by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, recently named the world's most powerful art figure, is on at Berlin's Martin Gropius Bau museum.
Featuring more than 220 photos that Ai took when he was in his 20s and 30s, the show captures the city through an enamoured stranger's eyes with street fights in Tompkins Square Park, transvestites at the Wigstock festival and portraits of Chinese and American artists. However Ai, who curated the show, could not be in Berlin to introduce the work, saying in a short video message that he regretted his absence without hinting at whether he was free to travel.
Russia's Bolshoi Theatre launches its first new production on the stage of the historic theatre, which officially reopened on October 28 after a half-decade renovation. Glinka's classic opera Ruslan and Lyudmila is conducted by Vladimir Jurowski in a new production by Dmitry Chernyakov.
David Hallberg, the US ballet star who has become the first American to join the Bolshoi Ballet, makes his eagerly anticipated stage debut in the part of Count Albert in the classical ballet Giselle.
