Raphael

In the halcyon days before the pandemic, every day tens of thousands of visitors piled into the Vatican Museums to admire the extraordinary Renaissance art contained therein. Their long shuffle ...

“The School of Athens” is one of the most important and fascinating frescos in Western art history. Pope Julius II commissioned ...

Visitors to London's Victoria and Albert Museum will soon be able to see seven of Raphael’s sublime cartoons, depicting the ...

In Raphael’s lifetime, early 16th-century artists and art aficionados could encounter Raphael’s art via prints. For those who ...

“I have neglected nothing,” said Nicolas Poussin, the 17th-century French classical painter. Everything in Poussin’s paintings is there ...

Beauty, goodness, and righteousness—the glory of God and our true human nature—can all be found in Raphael’s art. ...

In universal judgment, nothing more beautiful has ever been seen in the world. ut fuit universale juditium, sunt ...

Remarkably, one of the most recognizable works of art of the High Renaissance survives on two huge pieces ...

Two “noble, imposing” apostles by Domenico Beccafumi first introduced Naoko Takahatake, the curator of prints and drawings at ...

Last year the world celebrated the 500th anniversary of the “Sistine Madonna,” the work of Italian Renaissance artist ...