The discovery adds to evidence that preparatory drawings were common practice for Venetian artists as well as for their Florentine peers

Plus, Sir Normal Rosenthal and Macron becomes an art meme

New initiative by Save Venice will focus on more than 30 female artists who worked in the region between the 16th and 18th centuries, from Marietta Robusti to Rosalba Carriera

Family of Gustav Arens also receive French government compensation for a Tintoretto painting and a Dutch landscape

Belgian collector Marnix Neerman revealed as buyer as exhibition of masterpieces from Flemish collections opens at the Palazzo Ducale this week

Exhibition about the Venetian Renaissance at Frankfurt’s Städel Museum also includes works by Giovanni Bellini and Jacopo Tintoretto

An exhibition at the Morgan Library adds insight through the Venetian artist’s contemporaries

The “avant-garde superstar” of the Renaissance is celebrated in his home city before works make rare trip to the US

A string of exhibitions celebrating the 500th anniversary of the Venetian master’s birth will help to bring him back into favour