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 ...

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, ...

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

Rare frescoes dating back to the 17th century have been found by chance by an electrician working in Rome's Villa Farnesina. The Renaissance works were discovered a year ago behind a false ceiling ...

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

Rosy-cheeked cherubs surrounded by blues, reds and golds have lost none of their brilliance in 17th-century frescoes ...