When it comes to the Renaissance greats, Raphael surely needs no introduction. His huge impact on the course of Western art is well-known thanks to his membership, alongside Leonardo and Michelangelo, ...

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino—known simply as Raphael to most—was part of the Holy Trinity of the High Renaissance, along with two other guys named Leonardo and Michelangelo. An artist of extraordinary ...

Monday, April 6 marks the 500th anniversary of the death of Raphael, the Renaissance painter responsible for "The School of Athens" and "The Transfiguration." While the Vatican Museums was due to ...

An ink pot lost in the crowded fresco The School of Athens could reveal what Raphael hoped to achieve, writes Kelly Grovier. In art, it’s always the little things. Take The School of Athens by the ...

In a meeting of high art and state-of-the-art facial recognition, researchers say they’ve used artificial intelligence to determine that a circular painting of the Virgin Mary and the child Jesus, ...

When Robert Prevost took the name Leo XIV after being elected pope on 8 May, much was read into the reference this made to Leo XIII, a late 19th-century reformer and champion of social justice, whose ...

In Italy and beyond, the plan was to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Renaissance artist’s death with great fanfare. Then came the pandemic, and the virtual world stepped in. Raphael’s tomb in ...