Raphael is one of the shining stars of European art history, even if he has played both hero and heel roles: as standard ...

For the first time in the United States, there's a major retrospective of the work of the Renaissance master Raphael.

The maiden that Raphael painted around 1505 cradles the critter, tender and tame. She’s sitting upright, at a slight angle, ...

Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and now Raphael: New York's prestigious Metropolitan Museum of Art is dedicating a retrospective to the third of the great masters of the Italian Renaissance. Carmen ...

A survey of this giant of Renaissance art opens this month at the Met. Three experts show us why he matters as much as ...

The show at the New York institution presents a much wider “social and historical context” of motherhood and childhood ...

Asking for Raphael loans is like asking for the firstborn heir of the royal family,” Carmen C. Bambach, curator of the first ...

This is not only a truly major exhibition, but quite honestly, it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see Raphael in that way in the United States,” Metropolitan Museum of Art Director Max Hollein ...

Sublime Poetry” is the first comprehensive international loan exhibition in the country dedicated to the artist.

Though best known for a painting of two bored cherubs, he was the most enterprising, diligent, and proficient painter of the ...

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 ...