Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo: the Royal Collection explores how drawing influenced the Italian Renaissance

"The simple fact of paper becoming more available due to the book-printing revolution led to artists working in a different way... Drawing became the laboratory, in which the new Renaissance style was developed."

"I wanted to look at what artists did with drawings. How they drew, what types of drawings they produced... you can see how different artists used drawings in different ways."

"I wanted to make it about drawing as much as drawings-about the act of drawing. We'll be providing materials for the public to draw with."

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