When we enter a museum like the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, we see ourselves as viewers, as if our primary task ...

The forever savant, new courtier style, Madonnas, killer portraits, altarpieces, and more. What better way to observe Mother’s Day than with a slice of Raphael’s Madonnas? A baby happy to be with mom, ...

The closing image of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Raphael blockbuster, opening to the public on Sunday, is of a muscular man bursting out of a craggy hillside. As he does so, one jacked forearm ...

Many have called him boring, a peddler of simpleminded beauty. At the Met, a blockbuster exhibition restores his standing.

He's one of the art history's greatest figures, but until now, Italian Renaissance genius Raphael has not been the subject of a comprehensive, international loan exhibition in the United States. The ...

"Raphael was a very amorous man who was fond of women," Vasari wrote. Raphael, Self portrait (1506-1508). Firenze, Gallerie degli Uffizi, Galleria delle Statue e delle Pitture. Gabinetto fotografico ...

For only the third time this century, an original painting by renowned Renaissance great Raphael Sanzio (1483–1520) is coming to auction. The diminutive oil-on-panel Saint Mary Magdalene, painted ...

NEW YORK — During a recent visit to the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, I had almost the same experience that happens to me in Washington’s National Gallery of Art. Upon encountering Raphael’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 500-year-old Raphael painting is partially the work of another artist, according to a new study. A team led by scientists from ...