A magnificent exhibition at the Met in New York is a thorough, scholarly treatment of the great Renaissance painter — and a ...

One of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance is now the subject of the first comprehensive exhibition of his work ever in the United States, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York ...

A painting discovered in a stately home by the Scottish National Trust and valued at £20 ($26) is now thought to be a Madonna by Renaissance master Raphael, potentially increasing its worth to a cool ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Carmen Bambach decided she absolutely needed to have a painting for her sweeping Raphael ...

Many have called him boring, a peddler of simpleminded beauty. At the Met, a blockbuster exhibition restores his standing.

"Raphael was a very amorous man who was fond of women," Vasari wrote. Raphael, Self portrait (1506-1508). Firenze, Gallerie degli Uffizi, Galleria delle Statue e delle Pitture. Gabinetto fotografico ...

The Renaissance star has always been held up as a model of formal perfection but this outstanding show reveals the artist’s warmth and tenderness too A woman is running towards us, mouth open in a ...

Above: The Alba Madonna (ca. 1509-11) is on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. for the Met’s new show, Raphael: Sublime Poetry. When ...