Isabel Seligman is the Bridget Riley Art Foundation Exhibition Curator at the British Museum, London.

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Studies of the Virgin and Child (detail; c. 1522–24), Michelangelo. Pen and brown ink, with copies in red chalk by Antonio Mini. British Museum

‘Draw and don’t waste time’. Lessons from Michelangelo and the Old Masters

Art students these days are more likely to keep a blog than a sketchbook. The British Museum’s touring exhibition of historic drawings seeks to change that

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