Buildings by Michelangelo, carrots by Krut the week in art

Architecture in Italian renaissance painting, plus ping pong, horse poo and pornotopia all in your favourite weekly dispatch

Building the Picture: Architecture in Italian Renaissance Painting Renaissance architecture imagines ideal worlds. The geometrical domes and airy loggias of its classical revival are maps of utopian spaces. Artists aspired to create such architecture Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael all designed buildings. Imagined architecture also fills and gives structure to Renaissance paintings. To walk through the National Gallery's Sainsbury Wing is to see virtual worlds of seductive architecture painted by the likes of Antonello da Messina and Sandro Botticelli. This exhibition explores this strangely contemporary aspect of the Renaissance for virtual space and mathematical perspective are returning to the centre of culture in the digital age. Past, present and the fantastic meet in what should be a mind-opening show. National Gallery, London WC2N from 30 April until 21 September

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