The Louvre’s conservation of La Maestà sheds new light on the painter’s techniques and influences

Leonardo’s largest known drawing was hung with the Mona Lisa in his studio, says Per Rumberg, the curator of the Royal Academy’s Florentine Old Masters exhibition opening this month

In a new exhibition at the King's Gallery, over 160 works will explore how drawing “became the laboratory” for the new Renaissance style

Idea to place the painting in a separate space at the Louvre would reportedly cost around €500m

A geologist claims to have identified the landscape in Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous work as being that of a particular city in northern Italy, but some experts disagree

The church, which has undergone an extensive renovation, welcomed more than six months’ worth of visitors in the first three weeks after the work was completed

Two exhibitions, in Boston and Baltimore, celebrate the overlooked women artists who were working in Europe from the 15th century onwards

Rediscovered panel painting comes to Christie’s evening sale in London next month with an estimate of £4m-£6m

Numerous spaniels featured in the National Gallery of Ireland exhibition are likened to Paris Hilton's chihuahuas by show's curator

The Galleria Borghese has brought together the Aeneas Frieze panels from collections around the world

Tallahassee Classical School's principal, Hope Carrasquilla, was fired following parental complaints her Renaissance curriculum was too risqué

The first major UK exhibition dedicated to the radical Italian Renaissance master will also include important works from the museum's own collection

Exhibition at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor will bring together 27 drawings and reunite Uffizi’s Adoration of the Magi with its preparatory designs for the first time

The painter’s masterpieces show that his influences stretched beyond Venice and at times touch on the miraculous.

Fifteenth-century edition of The Divine Comedy includes witty drawing of Renaissance master at work on a sculpture, claims James Hall

This unrepeatable show, spread across the Palazzo Strozzi and Museo Nazionale del Bargello, reflects the Florentine master’s journey from late Gothic elegance to classical sensuality

Ikon Gallery puts on a survey of the overlooked Italian painter

Technical studies on neglected painting cast valuable light on the workings of the Renaissance master's Florence studio and on the question of attribution

Exhibition at Rome's Scuderie del Quirinale looks at Hell in art throughout the ages, from medieval torture to 20th-century concentration camps

Plus, the rise of private museums and Renaissance portraits at the Rijksmuseum

A new show looks at the Renaissance artist’s role as a designer and head of a busy workshop as well as the inventor of an instantly recognisable style

Five centuries after the German artist took a year-long journey around the Low Countries, his remarkable journal and drawings go on show in Aachen before travelling to London

The work is expected to fetch up to £12m in a live sale at Christie's London this July

High-resolution images of Renaissance treasures go online, revealing the tiniest details of Raphael’s creative process

The copy of Leonardo's $450m painting was taken from the Museum of San Domenico Maggiore last year

New 3D imagery reveals secrets of the Renaissance masterpieces as space reopens in time for 500th anniversary of Old Master's death

Growing unease as the special relationship between the two countries gains momentum during the Covid-19 crisis

Despite the dodgy gaze that Titian attributed to him in his famous portrait, this double volume demonstrates the Italian's important role in cultural history

Andrea della Robbia’s Mary Magdalene was acquired by Hermann Göring in 1941

Exhibition at Palazzo Madama promises an impressive number of works—and a fresh view of the Renaissance master's legacy