There are around 2,000 Renaissance drawings in the Royal Collection ... a lobster attempts to use a nutcracker rather than its own claws. Raphael, that famous lover, was one of only a handful ...

For only the third time this century, a painting by renowned Renaissance great Raphael is coming to auction. It is of Mary ...

Drawing the Italian Renaissance (until 9 March ... In this room, we also come across the 21-year-old Raphael, newly arrived in Florence and rapidly absorbing Michelangelo’s inventions.