Seven-metre painting offers "canvas proof" that self-taught nun ran an all-female workshop in her convent 450 years ago

We reveal the research and science behind the monograph exhibition exploring the Renaissance painter's artistic evolution

After a grant enabled conservation on a much-loved painting, researchers at the National Gallery of Ireland are learning more about the artist’s technique

The painting, long the subject of an attribution dispute, is now at the centre of a legal conflict over ownership

Three new books offer fresh angles on the Renaissance master

There will be a rash of shows on the Renaissance master, the largest will be in Rome

The Virgin and Laughing Child was recently re-attributed as the artist's “only surviving sculpture”

From Henry Moore’s Helmet Heads at the Wallace Collection to Renaissance nudes at the Royal Academy of Arts

Examining the many meanings—and inanities—ascribed to the unclothed human body in Western art

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

More than two-thirds of Antonello da Messina’s 35 accepted autograph works are reunited for a show at Palazzo Reale

The full-scale preparatory drawing for the Vatican’s School of Athens fresco is going back on view after a four-year restoration

“Spalliera” panels depicting parables are reunited at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum for the first time in 500 years

Drawings from the Royal Collection go on show around the country this week before larger surveys in London and Edinburgh later in the year

The 1301 carved pulpit will undergo a two-year intensive monitoring programme

Half of movable works by Renaissance master included in St Petersburg show

Scientists and artists replicated the Renaissance design, inking and printing process

The show includes male and female examples for historic accuracy, its lead curator says

A literally once-in-a-lifetime exhibition is at Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum

The collector's collection of 75 magnificent pieces

The interactions of Renaissance drawing, printing and ceramics

The significance of books in works of art

More than 30 conservators will treat paintings and sculptures, seven years after French culture ministry halted reckless cleaning of two panels

Despite the failings of the Stuart kings, their art collections stand in their favour, as exhibitions in the UK this year have shown

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

These two books—very different in approach—analyse the process and works of the Italian Renaissance painter

A rich and fascinating book on what can rightly be called the art of philosophy

The Accademia Carrara in Bergamo has re-attributed the 15th-century work Resurrection of Christ

A shoestring trip to La Serenissima—and a thumbs-up for Simon Schama

Noah Charney on works that we cannot see, but which remain as an influence to those who did see them