A famous sheet of Leonardo da Vinci ... 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 ...

Often, they were preparatory studies for finished paintings or works in other media ... use a nutcracker rather than its own claws. Raphael, that famous lover, was one of only a handful of Renaissance ...

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

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

Explore the magic of the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio, revealing their influence in art, nature, music, ...

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 ...

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The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is restoring “The Night Watch,” a large oil painting by the 17th-century master. Visitors have ...

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 ...