The Sistine Madonna is one of the world’s most famous Renaissance paintings. Raphael showed his great creativity by making this piece, which depicts the Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus in her ...

Art World The 10 Best Artworks by Raphael, Seraphic Genius of the Renaissance—Ranked. A look at the Umbrian master's great, greater, and greatest paintings.

The Renaissance era was one of the most beautiful and out-of-the-world revolutions in the arts arena. Be it unique painting techniques or flourishing artists like da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli ...

Raphael’s sweet Madonnas set a new standard in High Renaissance painting. Raphael combined the grace of Leonardo, the power of Michelangelo, and the humanist spirit of the age. The master of ...

But since you can talk to the Renaissance master about his painting, and since there could be several reasons why Raphael himself might have opted for this particular display of St. Joseph, it’s ...

The Renaissance era is still considered as one of the best, most beautiful, and most innovative eras in the fields of arts and crafts. From lifelike paintings that captivate people even today, to ...

A team of researchers just scanned two famous artworks by the High Renaissance artist Raphael with X-rays, and then used artificial intelligence to discern the chemical and color makeup of the ...

A detail from Raphael’s The Three Graces, c.1517–18 - Royal Collection Trust A young lad dressed in a cap and pointed slippers sits hunched over a sheet of paper at work on a drawing. Beside ...

After a decade-long cleaning and restoration, the Vatican Museums recently unveiled the "last and most important" room in the ...

Left: Albrecht Dürer, Self-Portrait in a Fur Skirt (1500). Photo: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images via Getty Images. Right: Raphael, Self portrait (1506-1508). Firenze, Gallerie degli Uffizi.