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A 19th-century painter like Berthe Morisot would be quite far afield, but what about artists who were closer to Bernini’s era, like Lavinia Fontana, Artemisia Gentileschi or Judith Leyster? The Bolognese Fontana worked for a pope Gentileschi, who was Roman, painted for a king and Leyster was the first woman to gain entry to an important Dutch guild. The Ninja Turtles creators considered enshrining Bernini, even though he wasn’t a Renaissance artist, so clearly time isn’t entirely of the essence here. Portrait of Donatello Rischgitz / Getty Imagesīut if some see Donatello as the weakest Turtle link, perhaps he could be replaced with a more diverse choice. Just as Splinter is essential to the comic characters, the Renaissance artists weren’t born in a vacuum.Ī room at the National Gallery with several Raphael canvases credits that painter, along with Leonardo and Michelangelo, with having “perfected the art of the High Renaissance.” At a press preview of the Raphael show, I asked organizer Jonathan Bober, senior curator of prints and drawings, which four artists he’d pick if he’d been consulted on the Ninja Turtles. The National Gallery recently finished an exhibition of Verrocchio, who taught Leonardo, and the Frick Collection recently held an exhibit of Donatello’s student and Michelangelo’s teacher Bertoldo di Giovanni. And lest art lovers think that the namesakes of the “Cowabunga”-uttering mutant turtles were self-taught geniuses, recent shows in Washington and New York have centered on the artists’ instructors. The Getty is holding an exhibit on “ Mind of the Master” through June 7. Michaelangelo, meanwhile, is getting a deep treatment of his drawings in Los Angeles. Eric Vandeville / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, exhibited at the Louvre in Paris.