For decades, a group of investors has been hoping to prove that an artwork found in an antique shop is by Raphael, considered one of the greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance. The work depicts ...
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) ...
While museums around the globe are closed to the public, we are spotlighting each day an inspiring exhibition that was previously on view. Even if you can’t see it in person, allow us to give you a ...
To “rehabilitate” an artist who has been a favorite of plain people for four centuries is not so silly as it may sound. That is what the Oxford University Press has undertaken to do for Raphael. Its ...
The inconsistent style of St. John's face in "Madonna della Rosa" has been a talking point among art historians for years. Samantha Kelly is a freelance writer with a focus on consumer technology, AI, ...
It sounds like something out of a Dan Brown thriller novel: a suburban man stumbles upon a lost masterwork by Raphael in an antique store abroad. Stranger than fiction, sure — but thanks to a recent ...
Artnet Bulletin is our new daily digest of five items from around the art world that are worth knowing. A different writer ...
An striking ability to work the styles of his contemporaries and teachers into his own work, combined with a charm still remarked upon today, made Raphael an artist the world is still celebrating, ...
Raphael may be more than ever a name that sets collectors and the art market aquiver, but to a group of British painters who worked a century ago, his work and life span (1483-1520) marked the point ...