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 is curled up fast asleep. This is the down-to-earth subject of a 15th ...

David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth ... to Leonardo's drawings and paintings. Dürer popularized this new art style and soon many other Renaissance artists began ...

and explained with wonderful perspicuity in the British Museum's big new show "Fra Angelico to Leonardo -- Italian Renaissance Drawings." About 100 works on paper are included, with pieces from ...

LONDON -- One of the greatest drawings by Renaissance master Raphael still in private hands sold for 29.7 million pounds ($47.9 million) on Wednesday, an auction record for the artist in sterling ...

Running through Feb. 20 and spread across five Florence museums, the show pits 100 paintings and drawings by the 51-year-old British artist against works by Renaissance masters, on their home turf.

The practice of drawing in Europe is as old as the lines in the caves at Lascaux, but there was a major change during the Renaissance: works on paper became valued on their own terms, not just as ...

This is the down-to-earth subject of a 15th ... to announce the show’s approach. Drawing, it suggests, isn’t a rarefied activity. There are around 2,000 Renaissance drawings in the Royal ...