Sublime Poetry,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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, ...

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

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

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Raphael, "The Madonna of the Pinks" ("La Madonna dei Garofani") (c. 1506-7), oil on yew 11 x 8.8 inches (© The National Gallery, London) LONDON — Art has triumphed over the pandemic! Raphael, that ...

The Renaissance star has always been held up as a model of formal perfection but this outstanding show reveals the artist’s warmth and tenderness too A woman is running towards us, mouth open in a ...

While we’re waiting for the delayed National Gallery extravaganza, this wide-ranging documentary relays the full breadth of Raphael’s achievements In 2022, London’s National Gallery will finally get ...

Saint Cecilia is one of Rome’s most popular martyr saints, known for her ecstatic visions, communicating with God by singing, and convincing her husband to take a vow of chastity immediately after ...