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A blockbuster exhibition of Italian Renaissance works on paper launching at the King’s Gallery in London later this year will include 12 works never seen in the UK including An ostrich, a chalk study ...
“The simple fact of paper becoming more available due to the book-printing revolution led to artists working in a different way,” says Martin Clayton, the head of prints and drawings of the Royal ...
Painting and sculpture may fetch the highest prices and become the most renowned artworks, but the humble medium of drawing has been crucially important in art history, if often operating behind the ...
Titian is one of the most celebrated painters of all time, and his influence has been among the most far-reaching in the history of art. He freed painting from drawing and made paint's physicality—the ...
Luminosity is a key feature of Venetian drawing. Venetian artists were concerned above all with the play of light and shade on forms,” says Dr Catherine Whistler, the Ashmolean Museum’s Keeper of ...