The secret to great Renaissance art: tracing. by Phil Edwards. Jun 15, 2015, 1:20 PM UTC ... It’s easy to assume these drawings were just studies for the final painting, ...

Drawing, it suggests, isn’t a rarefied activity. 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.

The formula is simple: 50 of the choicest works from each collection, just about the finest in the world. It takes you inside the Renaissance workshop, and even into the heads of painters and ...

Not content with a ‘History of the World in 100 objects’, the British Museum also gives us the history of Italian Renaissance drawings in 100 drawings — and in just over 100 years, between ...

“The simple fact of paper becoming more available due to the book-printing revolution led to artists working in a ... • Drawing the Italian Renaissance, King’s Gallery, London, 1 November ...

The great Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli is best known for painted works such as Primavera (c. 1477–82) and The Birth of Venus (c. 1485–86), which hang in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery ...