If you go to Italy, or to the Italian Renaissance galleries of an art museum, you may find yourself wondering how artists of the time created work of such refinement and complexity. What were the ...

Scientists found the DNA on a drawing similar to the Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk , which is shown. Marco Bertorello / AFP via Getty Images For the last decade, a group of researchers has been ...

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, but a new ...

Sublime Poetry opens at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on March 29, it will mark a consequential moment in American museum ...

An ongoing exhibition at the College of William and Mary's Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Virginia, brings seven of Michelangelo's few surviving sketches to light in the United States for ...

"Drawing is both the most central and the most elusive of the key artistic methods," said Waldemar Januszczak in The Sunday Times. It is central because all art starts with it: we've all had a go at ...

Archaeologists in Milan have turned a 15th century sketch by Leonardo da Vinci into a working blueprint, tracing his inked lines to a network of hidden passageways beneath one of Italy’s most famous ...

eonardo da Vinci’s Genetic Secrets Possibly Hidden in “Holy Child” Drawing (Image: Canva) Researchers may have recovered trace DNA from a red chalk sketch, “Holy Child,” possibly linked to Leonardo da ...