At the “Raphael: Sublime Poetry” exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art one masterpiece is more jaw-dropping than the next. The exquisite Madonnas, the monumental tapestries, the bravura ...
It’s rare that history offers up a simple diagnosis of cultural decline, but we happen to know the exact moment when all of European art headed for ruin. According to the critic John Ruskin, the ...
O fim de semana em Natal terá programação para públicos variados, com atrações que passam pela MPB, sertanejo, humor e atividades para a família. Um dos destaques é o cantor e compositor Geraldo ...
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 ...
Raphael was believed to be 17 when he did this chalk sketch, likely a self-portrait. "What is really extraordinary is the perfection of his technique in drawing," said curator Carmen Bambach. You can ...
Critic Ben Davis joins Kate Brown to analyze the Met's blockbuster show and the life and work of the Renaissance master. Raphael’s Bindo Altoviti (ca. 1516-18) National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C ...
Considering the meanings of “Raphael: Sublime Poetry” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Raphael, The Virgin and Child with Infant Saint John the; Baptist in a Landscape (The Alba Madonna) around 1509 ...
This blockbuster exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art humanizes a lapsed god of painting. Critic’s Pick This blockbuster exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art humanizes a lapsed god of ...
There was nothing he couldn’t do. This was Renaissance biographer Giorgio Vasari’s conclusion about Raphael (1483-1520), the view of his contemporaries and his patrons, and a reasonable conclusion ...
In his 37 years of life, Raffaello di Giovanni Santi, who would come to be known simply as Raphael, rose from painting altarpieces in countryside churches to grand frescoes in the Vatican palace, ...
Nuns sold off the ‘Colonna Altarpiece’ bit by bit. Now the Met has put it back together. Raphael’s first altarpiece was disassembled in the 17th century and sold off piece by piece. The Metropolitan ...