The pieces that are displayed in the exhibition are sourced from the Royal Collection, which, with near 2,000 sheets, possesses one of the world’s largest collections of Renaissance drawings. Drawing ...

A detail from Raphael’s The Three Graces, c.1517–18 - Royal Collection Trust A young lad dressed in a cap and pointed slippers sits hunched over a sheet of paper at work on a drawing. Beside him a dog ...

Painting and sculpture may fetch the highest prices and become the most renowned artworks, but the humble medium of drawing has been crucially important in art history, if often operating behind the ...

"Drawing is both the most central and the most elusive of the key artistic methods," said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times. It is central because all art starts with it: we've all had a go at ...

“The simple fact of paper becoming more available due to the book-printing revolution led to artists working in a different way,” says Martin Clayton, the head of prints and drawings of the Royal ...

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A trio of Renaissance masters look over each other’s shoulders in Florence 1504, while a parallel show of drawings from the Royal Collection gets to the very heart of their art It’s 25 January 1504, ...