Discover the political and cultural landscape of Florence at the turn of the 16th century, when Renaissance masters ...

Alexandra Harris tracks our enduring love affair with gallery gift shops, from eighteenth-century tea cups to postcards in space.

Inklings, ideas and experiments that never reached completion by four RA Schools students. This exhibition of work by RA Schools students explores the potential of ideas which never reached completion ...

Explore art works, paint-smeared palettes, scribbled letters and more... Artists and architects have run the RA for 250 years. Our Collection is a record of them.

Acclaimed author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks about the inspiration behind her writing. In this lecture, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will explore how she came to write and gives personal insight into ...

This print is part of the 'British School II' album, which originally contained 170 prints published between around 1713 and 1810. A significant number (around 15-20) have since been removed. The ...

This print is one of 180 plates which make up the 'British School I' album, presumably compiled in the early nineteenth century. This album is prefaced by a nine-page text entitled ‘Notes relating to ...

We met Cris Ballester Parets in Mallorca, to find out more about her collaborative process and the projects that inspired this year’s jury. “When all people in the project win something, then the ...

"Copying Leonardo is almost impossible" Ahead of our Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael exhibition, artist Adebanji Alade went to see some of Leonardo's battle drawings at Royal Collection Trust. To find ...

Our Senior Registrar, Edwina Mulvany, describes the delicate process of moving Michelangelo’s Taddei Tondo. From the Autumn 2024 issue of RA Magazine, issued quarterly to Friends of the RA. It is more ...

Le Pitture Antiche Del Sepolcro De Nasonii Nella Via Flaminia Disegnate, ed intagliate alla similitudine degli Antichi Originali Da Pietro Santi Bartoli Descritte, & illustrate Da Gio: Pietro Bellori.

561 # # $a Part of a set of pamphlets from the library of Richard Westmacott RA presented by Mrs Rodwell in 1937 (see RA Annual Report for 1937, p. 55). 561 # # $a ...