This is the down-to-earth subject of a 15th-century sketch by an unidentified Florentine artist that appears at the start of this ... a lobster attempts to use a nutcracker rather than its own claws.

Obviously, they used sketches as preparation for paintings but they also had ... Michael Clayton, the curator, has brought out of his store things old – Raphael’s Three Graces or Leonardo’s beautiful, ...

Discover the political and cultural landscape of Florence at the turn of the 16th century, when Renaissance masters ...

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

A London exhibition shows how the three painters circled one another as rivals and role models in 16th-century Florence.