A five-inch-tall red chalk drawing of a foot, said to be by Michelangelo (1475–1564), will be offered for sale at Christie's ...

Styles from centuries ago show up in contemporary fashions from major designers on view in “Renaissance to Runway: The ...

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 ...

The Renaissance artist painted more than 100 figures in the Sistine Chapel ceiling, yet studies for only a handful remain.

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 ...

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 ...

Jamal Lisby details his "Heavenly Bodies" starting point and how Italy's rich history remains a reference point for designers ...

"100,000 years ago, someone made a humble sketch on a flat rock with a burnt stick. And the art of drawing — the parent of painting, architecture and sculpture -- was born. But it didn’t grow up until ...

The National Gallery's new exhibition, Strange Beauty: Masters of the German Renaissance has opened to mixed reviews with some critics calling it "riveting", others "disappointing". In fact, the show ...