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 ...

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 ...

Raphael painted the portrait of the saint around 1503, when he was about 20. Experts say that Saint Mary Magdalene showcases the Italian Renaissance master’s early talent. “He was working with ...

The Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari wrote about how the pair’s postal partnership began in his 1568 edition of The Lives of the Artists.Raphael, thanks to his high-profile ...

Curiously, the painting was to be accompanied by another work, The Raising of Lazarus, by Raphael’s two greatest rivals: the Venetian painter Sebastiano del Piombo and, of course, Michelangelo.

In the early 16th century, three of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance circled each other in Florence, vying for influence and looking for inspiration. Now, an exhibition—titled ...

Clayton invites us to consider the tangible properties of the media – including pen-and-ink and metalpoint – that, between 1450 and 1600, the 81 artists in this show deployed to astonishingly ...