Raphael, that famous lover, was one of only a handful of Renaissance artists to draw from the nude female ... His scope was extraordinary. What other artist could create a flawless red-chalk ...

With the King’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace currently hosting an exhibition on the drawings of the Italian Renaissance (including those of the masters Raphael, Leonardo and Michelangelo), this ...

Raphael, a friend of Taddeo Taddei, was inspired by the Taddei Tondo. Several years later, the piece would influence the artist’s Bridgewater ... as a “presentation drawing: a full-sized ...

I was rather entranced by the drawing’s numinous aura, as the silhouetted, unfinished hand of St Anne, the Virgin’s mother, ...