If you’ve been to any previous exhibitions at the former Queen’s Gallery, now the King’s Gallery, at Buckingham Palace (I’ve covered several for the Herald, including Charles II, Canaletto, and Russia, Royalty & the Romanovs), you’d expect big colourful paintings. Drawing the Italian Renaissance is very different. Grandeur is replaced with subtlety. But it’s a paradox: it’s quiet, subdued, largely monochrome; on the other hand, it comes over as busy and almost cluttered, with some walls holding a dozen works – around 160 in all, from over 80 artists.