Created by Raphael for Pope Leo X, the Loggias have decorated a corridor in the Apostolic Palace for centuries.

"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 ...

Plenty of faces keep you company in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition “Raphael: Sublime Poetry”—saints and sinners, popes and poets, ladies in posh frocks or nothing at all—but the most ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

Raphael missed his birthday party in Rome. It was to be the biggest in 500 years, with a year-long celebration and the largest collection of his work assembled in one place. Then Covid-19 struck, just ...

Peer to Michelangelo and Leonardo, Raphael produced many masterpieces before dying at age 37. His influence has only grown in the 500 years since his untimely death. Also known as The Madonna and ...