When it comes to the Renaissance greats, Raphael surely needs no introduction. His huge impact on the course of Western art ...

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 ...

Many Renaissance artists went on to provide the illustrations for anatomists’ textbooks and pamphlets, which in turn became educational tools for a new cohort of artists and scientists.

Many of Padeu’s paintings take inspiration from Renaissance compositions, like “La réunion syndicale,” which bears hints of ...

The artwork had been hiding in plain sight in the archives of a provincial museum in France, where it will eventually go on ...

Vasari recorded the lives of artists and the contribution of the Medici, in a precursor of today's PR. Machiavelli, the Godfather of Realpolitik, wrote the first modern manual for leadership ...

The Victorians saw the world changing. New technologies changed how we made and bought goods and Victorian era paintings show ...

Drawing the Italian Renaissance (1 November-9 March 2025) includes works by 81 artists spanning 1450 to 1600; more than 150 works will be on display from the Royal Collection, nine of which will ...

“Its iconography is linked to Renaissance models and a classicism typical of the artist, with references to antiquity that make it unique in Mantegna’s production.” It is still not known why ...