The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is holding what it describes as the first comprehensive exhibition devoted to Renaissance painter Raffaello di Giovanni Santi (better known as Raphael) ...

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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 ...

Detail of Raphael, "Saint Sebastian in Half Length" (c. 1502–3), tempera grassa and oil, with gold highlights, on wood (all photos Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) “Nature created him as a gift to the ...

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, ...

With the last half-millennium in mind, Raphael has arguably been the most important artist of the western canon, casting his harmonious spell everywhere from the frescoed walls of the Vatican’s ...