An exhibition in Brussels spotlights 90-plus artworks featuring golden-haired muses, greedy old men and those deemed ...

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 ...

At Buckingham Palace’s King’s Gallery, is a show of Italian Renaissance royalty. “Drawing the Italian Renaissance” is filled with masterpieces from the epoch by some of the most famous artists who ...

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. What were the ...

Buckingham Palace has been home to countless exhibitions that explore the history of the British royal family through art design. And now, an exhibition showcasing the artistic royalty of the Italian ...

The University of Wisconsin School of Human Ecology unveiled its newest exhibition, ‘Remaking the Renaissance,’ curated by Textile Specialist and Research director for the Helen Louise Allen Textile ...

In a New York City lab microbial geneticist Norberto Gonzalez-Juarbe leaned over a fragile Renaissance drawing and gently rubbed its surface — front and back — with a cotton swab, the same kind once ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — One of the weirdest and most wonderful drawings in the world takes center stage in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s fascinating new international loan exhibition, “Tales of the City: ...

"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 ...

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 ...

It's the centerpiece of Renaissance art in Florence, one of the most revered works of art on Earth: Michelangelo's masterpiece, his statue of David. In 1501 the Tuscan artist was just 26 when he began ...

Scene from ‘Four Last Things’ (all GIFs and screenshots by the author for Hyperallergic) Forgive me, for I have sinned. I peeped at a lady’s ankle through an open window and carved an idol in my own ...