Following extensive restorations, the Vatican Museums is opening the largest of the Raphael Rooms to the public. Located in ...

Raphael is one of the best known Renaissance masters and lived from 1483 to 1520. ... Christ Child and St John the Baptist are unequivocally painted by Raphael, ...

The Madonnas painted by Raphael in his Florentine period were influenced by Leonardo’s 1503 work “The Virgin and St. Anne,” which depicts a lamb held by the Christ Child as his mother Mary ...

RAPHAEL’S MASTERPIECE. On Good Friday in 1520, ... At the top, Christ has climbed Mount Tabor with the Apostles, and there he is transfigured—appearing in his glorified body, ...

Raphael painted ‘The Triumph of Galatea,’ which depicts the Greek tale of Galatea and Pygmalion, for tycoon Agostino Chigi, who paid for the piece for his family villa.

Raphael, Christ’s charge to Peter, 1515. By 1508 he had been commissioned to paint the first of a suite of rooms in Pope Julius II’s private apartments, ...

A 500-year-old Raphael painting is partially the work of another artist, according to a new study. A team led by scientists from England’s University of Bradford used artificial intelligence to ...