Some of the finest drawings in history were done using silverpoint. A new exhibition is proof that this artform is ingenious, magical – and will stop you in your tracks The equivalent of an iPad ...

Visitors to “Drawing in Silver and Gold” might wonder if human eyesight has seriously devolved in the last half-millennium. The exhibition’s first two rooms contain dozens of washed-out, minutely ...

The British Museum’s exhibition of some 100 drawings in silverpoint and, more rarely, goldpoint, begins with a juxtaposition of hands. A pair, gracefully poised though unnaturally flexed, by the ...

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Drawings—whether quick preparatory sketches or highly finished works—have long been undervalued compared to oil paintings, which grab the headlines and the highest prices. But the lines and textures ...