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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

In its heyday, from about the twelfth through the eighteenth centuries, Venice was Western Europe’s easternmost capital. With trading posts scattered as far off as China, Venice was uniquely ...

Plus Italian Renaissance drawings at the Kings Gallery, Buckingham Palace. Show more. Steve McQueen talks about his new film Blitz, starring Saoirse Ronan and set in London during the Second World ...