In anticipation of our free exhibition Caravaggio’s Cupid, opening on 26 November, join us to celebrate an Italian masterpiece in our permanent collection.

Travel from Florence to Venice, from the sculpture workshops of early 16th-century England to the armouries of Northern Italy. Linger over the luminous forms and jewel-bright colours of Andrea del Sarto’s The Virgin and Child with the Infant Baptist, then encounter a pair of glittering Venetian chairs that rival the brilliance of Canaletto and Guardi. Meet the fiery sculptor Pietro Torrigiani, who fled Italy to carve his haunting Head of Christ for Westminster Abbey, and study the sleek curve of a 15th-century sallet, shaped by classical ideals and the imagination of its maker.