Grant Lewis is the Milein Cosman curator of ‘Late Michelangelo’ at the British Museum.
Three hundred years after the composer moved into his London townhouse, what does the art collection he amassed there tell us about his music?
Giorgio Vasari’s famous collection of Renaissance drawings was dispersed after his death, and scholars have been trying track down its contents for centuries
The monetary value of preparatory studies was slight in the Renaissance – but for the ideas they contained, they were worth their weight in gold
