Show at the King's Gallery features an 'enormous cache' of works by the likes of Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael ...

There are, in this splendid exhibition any number of drawings squared off to be scaled up for transfer to a painting, but there are also some sheets where artists have simply drawn for the joy of it.

Often, they were preparatory studies for finished paintings or works in other media ... nutcracker rather than its own claws. Raphael, that famous lover, was one of only a handful of Renaissance ...

Coming home from a 2008 tour of Israel, Marlo and I each carried with us an olivewood souvenir. Israeli tourist shops stocked ...

11 x 11 in. (27.9 x 27.9 cm.) ...

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Vincent is famous in all corners of the globe for his painting of sunflowers in a vase. But many people do not realise that he made multiple versions of this ...