The Christie's estimate puts its worth over £3.5 million

The exhibition disappoints and leaves the collector’s passion concealed

Raphael’s “Donna Velata” and Titian’s “Young Englishman” have become two of the most influential paintings by Renaissance masters

A new book explores the notebooks of the Renaissance Master

The conclusion of the twenty-year project to restore Leonardo’s famous fresco has made headlines around the world The Art Newspaper presents a selection of reactions from the newspapers

Da Vinci on CD and on the net

Centenary of collector, C.D.E. Fortnum, celebrated with exhibition and lectures at Society of Antiquaries

Bonsanti defends the twenty-year project that hoped to breathe life back into the wreck of one of Leonardo's masterworks

The relationship between painting and physiognomy explored in Milan, from Da Vinci to Bacon

A twenty -year restoration project has removed many layers of overpainting

Catherine E. King's book reviewed

This study maintains that Verrocchio’s “Tobias and the angel” in London is the first example of the artist’s hand

The second of the four volume series on the furniture of the Pitti Palace makes its debut

The exhibition contains some stunning examples of Lorenzo Lotto’s approach to portraiture, which is to show the private rather than the public individual

No great women artists? But they star in all the pictures

It is marked by three celebrations in his native Basel and an exhibition at London's National Gallery on his renowned “Ambassadors”

Too few collectors, and too specialised, to guarantee success even for masterpieces

Detailed study of the V&A's Raphael cartoons suggests he painted them as independent works of art

Great collectors at the Getty

Autumn sale at Christie’s expected for the last manuscript by the artist in private hands — in 1980 it sold for £2 million

Siena is celebrating a great master from her Renaissance past with exhibitions on his painting, sculpture, architecture and engineering

Very few bronzes survive from this period, making the piece a remarkable find

Access Apollo Belvedere and friends on computer now

Fiat’s cultural showplace, the Palazzo Grassi, collaborates for the first time ever with a Venetian museum

Highlights include the “Vitruvian Man”

Leonardo da Vinci showdown comes to the National Gallery of Scotland

Leonardo the artist and the scientist will be on show

The stunning assemblage contains works by many Northern masters, including both the elder and younger Holbeins

And not Isabella d’Este, Pacifica Brandano, Costanza d’Avalos, a cumulative female image—or Leonardo in drag