Drawing the Italian Renaissance at the King’s Gallery review: from Leonardo’s dragons to Raphael’s Graces this is a splendid show - 5/5 There is an extraordinary number of Old Masters on ...

A period of immense artistic and cultural growth that ushered out the Middle Ages, forever changing the world in the process, the Renaissance began in the Florentine Republic in the 14 th century, ...

The Renaissance in drawing Two exhibitions reveal how, for the great Renaissance artists, drawing was both a tool for making paintings and a form of self-expression. By Michael Prodger Leonardo da ...

London: An artist friend recently said to me that anyone can draw, "it's just a matter of paying attention." The techniques with which the hand reproduces what the eye sees are old ones, and ...

London If you go to Italy, or to the Italian Renaissance galleries of an art museum, you may find yourself wondering how artists of the time created work of such refinement and complexity.

A new exhibition at London's British Museum unites arguably the world's two greatest collections of Renaissance drawings and underlines their growing importance to artists throughout the 15th century.

On the other hand, some of the sketches are quite appealing. White gouache highlighting makes Biagio Pupini’s 16th century work “The Adoration of the Magi” seems ethereal and fleeting. Mary and the ...

Paper engineer Robert Sabuda has teamed up with the Leonardo da Vinci Robot Society to create the Drawmaton drawing machine that's based on a rumor, that da Vinci's so-called Robot Knight coudl ...

The drawing by German Renaissance artist Dürer was purchased at a yard sale in Massachusetts for $30 in 2017 Shafiq Najib is a former writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He left PEOPLE in 2023. A piece of ...

The drawing materials too were often mineral-derived; the original mineral chalk – not powdery like ours - has kept wonderfully well. As for ink, the stuff made from oak gall is still beautiful.