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Explore the Royal Collection online, one of the largest and most important art collections in the world, and one of the last great European royal collections to remain intact. Royal Collection Trust looks after the Royal Collection, one of the most important art collections in the world, and...

You can search across the RA Collection, including our archive and library. Try searching for an artwork, or looking for a colour, medium or technique. You can also discover all of the artists (Royal Academicians) who have run the Academy since its foundation in 1768 to the present day. If...

Cave paintings are painted drawings on cave walls or ceilings, mainly of prehistoric origin, beginning roughly 40,000 years ago in Eurasia. The exact purpose of the Paleolithic cave paintings is not known. Evidence suggests that they were not merely decorations of living areas, since the caves...

Long overdue, but there it is. Apparently, the paintings done by Leonardo da Vinci cannot be faked by no artist of today. No matter how talented the artists of today are, not a single one of them is able to create a painting of the same quality. I am not even talking about making a copy of Mona...