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

Yet, for head of prints and drawings Martin Clayton, who, here, selects 158 of them (including nine which are double-sided), Renaissance drawings were, with a few exceptions, “working tools”. Often, ...

But by this point we have seen so many striking pieces – fresher and livelier than paintings – that we can only marvel that it took that long. The title of the exhibition is Drawing the Italian ...

Museum staff have shared the history of a rare Italian renaissance painting they managed to save from being sold overseas. The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford announced on Thursday that the 1420s ...

A rare early masterpiece by the Renaissance painter Fra Angelico has been acquired by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England ...

Art and culture being accessible to all is “fundamental”, the Ashmolean Museum director has said, after securing nearly £5 million in funding to save a rare Italian Renaissance painting.

This exhibition immerses you in the mind of history's greatest artist and scientist through original Italian Renaissance paintings by the disciples of Leonardo's workshop, the reconstruction of ...

The work had been in a private British collection for more than 200 years A museum has raised almost £4.5m to save a rare Italian renaissance painting. The Ashmolean Museum, which is part of the ...

A museum has raised almost £4.5m to save a rare Italian renaissance painting. The Ashmolean Museum, which is part of the University of Oxford, paid £4.48m for the 1420s crucifixion painting by ...