It is central because all art starts with it ... honed male physique far removed from daily reality". Renaissance drawings were generally used as preparatory tools, said Alastair Sooke in The ...

He simply couldn’t help himself. The Royal Collection has an extraordinary number of Renaissance drawings – thanks in large part to Charles II – and here, brought together, are 160 of them ...

A charcoal drawing housed in another art collection ... It has been held since 1862 in the collection of Renaissance art at the Conde Museum at the Palace of Chantilly, north of the French capital.

Two exhibitions reveal how, for the great Renaissance artists, drawing was both a tool for making paintings ... but unconcerned with exteriors. Reports of the art form’s death have been exaggerated – ...