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, points upwards towards heaven. Leonardo’s art is an enigma that ...

The 38 by 13 centimeter panel is dated 1503, when the artist ... attire. Raphael's auction record is £29.16 million ($48 million), paid in 2009 at Christie's in London for the chalk drawing ...