The Renaissance saw a huge increase in drawings ... Among the works is a sketch by Raphael, Christ’s Charge to Peter, c.1514, an offset of preparatory drawing for what would become tapestries ...

a stunned silence falls across the space as they view what are believed to be sketches by the Italian Renaissance artist, Michelangelo Buonarroti. "People are shocked…. Just being in that ...

In 1968, researchers examining an obscure trove of Renaissance drawings discovered sketches from the studio of a 15th century Italian inventor that were eerily similar to Leonardo’s study for a ...

The Renaissance genius made thousands of notes ... "The Vitruvian Man," one of Da Vinci's most well-known sketches, is a study of the proportions of the human body. The achievements of Leonardo ...

Scholars have speculated that these unsigned sketches may have been the handiwork of famed Renaissance artist Michelangelo. Florence, Italy — In 1975, Paolo Dal Poggetto, then director of the ...

For example, visitors will encounter a charcoal sketch of a young man (c ... The curator has emphasized the continuity ...

Aside from Saturday Night Live, the sketch format seemed like something that faded from the comedy culture spotlight in the late ’90s and early 2000s, as sitcoms like Seinfeld, Friends ...

But the Renaissance polymath’s oeuvre stretches far beyond paintings (and art in the conventional sense). He produced thousands of sketches and writings during his lifetime, from blueprints for ...

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 ...