The distance between the Cathedral of St. Raphael and the Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium is barely 1,000 feet as a ...

One of the most intricately decorated parts of the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace, a passageway walked by popes and presidents ...

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When we enter a museum like the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, we see ourselves as viewers, as if our primary task is to look. But “Raphael: Sublime Poetry” invites us to do something else.

The forever savant, new courtier style, Madonnas, killer portraits, altarpieces, and more. What better way to observe Mother’s Day than with a slice of Raphael’s Madonnas? A baby happy to be with mom, ...

It’s rare that history offers up a simple diagnosis of cultural decline, but we happen to know the exact moment when all of European art headed for ruin. According to the critic John Ruskin, the ...

NEW YORK — During a recent visit to the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, I had almost the same experience that happens to me in Washington’s National Gallery of Art. Upon encountering Raphael’s ...

Raphael was believed to be 17 when he did this chalk sketch, likely a self-portrait. "What is really extraordinary is the perfection of his technique in drawing," said curator Carmen Bambach. You can ...

Considering the meanings of “Raphael: Sublime Poetry” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Raphael, The Virgin and Child with Infant Saint John the; Baptist in a Landscape (The Alba Madonna) around 1509 ...

Detail of Raphael, "Saint Sebastian in Half Length" (c. 1502–3), tempera grassa and oil, with gold highlights, on wood (all photos Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) “Nature created him as a gift to the ...