If you go to Italy, or to the Italian Renaissance galleries of an ... always that the works were first conceived by means of drawing. A technological revolution occurred around 1450—the ...

Credit: Alamy / Stephen Chung "Drawing is both the most central and ... raids its extraordinary holdings of works on paper from the Italian Renaissance, most of them collected by Charles II ...

Drawing the Italian Renaissance features over one hundred and fifty pieces created between 1450 and 1600 by more than eighty artists. These artists include such Renaissance masters as Raphael, ...