Show at the King's Gallery features an 'enormous cache' of works by the likes of Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael ...
This brief chapter of art history is often overlooked. Now, an exhibition in New York City makes a strong argument for the ...
Drawing, it suggests, isn’t a rarefied activity. There are around 2,000 Renaissance drawings in the Royal Collection, mostly amassed during the reign of Charles II, including show-stopping sheets from ...
Florence, the Athens of Italy, had banished the Medici family, after having put them in power, and had just burned Savonarola at the stake, after having regarded him as an idol and a prophet.
In 1504, three huge figures of the Renaissance era found themselves in Florence, then a city in turmoil. A fascinating new ...
This autumn seems to be the season for Old Master Drawings exhibitions! The Fondation Custodia in Paris opened a new show ...
when the three giants of the Italian Renaissance – Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael – locked horns. These days, the art world plays down the importance of competition, and ...
A rare early masterpiece by the Renaissance painter Fra Angelico has been acquired by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England ...