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 ...

Much of it is glass painted with silver stains that allow highly precise drawing, similar to oil painting. One of the most ...

A striking painting stolen over 40 years ago is to go on display in Scotland for the first time as part of a new exhibition.

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 ...