Raphael`s figures are contiguous in a narrow compass, as if for protection, as in The Holy Family with a Lamb (Prado, 1507), or within a rigid geometrical frame, as in the Alba Madonna (Washington ...

The tragically short yet miraculous career of Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known simply as Raphael, is a wonder even to this day, as a dazzling new exhibition at the National Gallery in London reminds ...

Over the past half century, the art of Raphael has rather fallen out of fashion, said Alastair Sooke in The Daily Telegraph. Latter-day critics “carp” that his work is simply “too perfect”; his ...

Marking the 500th anniversary of the artist’s death, an exhibition delayed by the pandemic is meant to present an “antidote” to the world’s turmoil. By Farah Nayeri LONDON — The news sent tremors ...

Bindo Altoviti is surely among the most handsome men ever rendered in paint. Raphael’s vivid portrait (c. 1516-18) of the Florentine banker forms part of the extraordinary final room of the exhibition ...

A long-running battle over who would buy Raphael’s “Madonna of the Pinks” from the Duke of Northumberland -- the National Gallery in London or the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles -- ended Thursday ...