A new exhibition opening next month at the Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, Virginia, explores the Italian ...

Caravaggio, the 17th-century Italian painter who mastered the play of dark atmospheres and light, was known for his impulsive ...

Michelangelo was the archetypal Renaissance man who found immense fame in his lifetime and is still remembered as one of the ...

The discovery adds to evidence that preparatory drawings were common practice for Venetian artists as well as for their ...

A series of underground passages have been found under Sforza Castle in Milan by experts at the city's Polytechnic University ...

A food scientist, nutritionist, and weight loss doctor weigh in on the viral new David protein bars and share if they can ...

A new exhibition at Buckingham Palace features over 150 Renaissance drawings by masters like Raphael, Michelangelo, and ...

A picture of a 16th-century grocery list, sketched by legendary Italian sculptor and painter Michelangelo, has gone viral.

With Michelangelo destroying many of his sketches, intended for his eyes only, fewer than 50 survive today of the hundreds he made for the Sistine Chapel ceiling — with half of those drawings ...

Featuring Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo and others, a show at the King’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace highlights the period’s works on paper—which, though frequently preparatory, stand as ...

During the four years he spent painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling, Michelangelo executed hundreds of preparatory drawings, only 50 of which survive today. In March, a rare roundup of these sketches ...

Whether you’re gazing at a palace or church, a mythological or religious painting, a tapestry or fresco, the answer is almost always that the works were first conceived by means of drawing.