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 ...

The title of the exhibition is Drawing the Italian Renaissance, and the rooms are provided with clipboards, desks and pencils so that visitors can draw from the work themselves; on some days artists ...

Show at the King's Gallery features an 'enormous cache' of works by the likes of Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael ...

The Bachelor’s degree offers an in-depth encounter with Italian language, tradition, and cultural heritage. Focusing on the centuries when Italy led Western art and literature, i.e. the late Middle ...

Renaissance paintings ... scouring the masterpieces of 15th- and 16th-century art for answers to one of the great questions of Italian agriculture: Whatever happened to the boisterous selection ...

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Your support makes all the difference. Scurvy is an easily treatable disease of the past first discovered in sailors during the Renaissance era. Today it may be mistaken for other conditions like ...

Some art museums overawe with the sweep of their collections. Others thrill with a few perfectly placed masterworks. The best of them embody their cities’ ambitions and fulfill an ideal ...

Instead, "they were victims of (Italy's) colonial and fascist regime." Brothers of Italy traces its roots to the Italian Social Movement (MSI), formed in 1946 as a direct heir of Mussolini's ...