Raphael was born in Urbino in northeastern Italy in 1483, the only surviving child of Magia di Battista Ciarla and Giovanni Santi, a painter in the court of the Duke of Urbino. Under the duke’s ...

Agostino Chigi, the artist’s friend and patron, became so frustrated with Raphael’s inattention to a requested commission (so great was the painter ... but a romantic one as well.

There is certainly more to Raphael than blonde Madonnas and lush nudes. As well as being an accomplished painter, he was celebrated as a great architect. He delighted clients with monumental ...

This was a symptom not just of neoclassical reverence for the past but of Romantic exaggeration ... own calling as a painter. He depicts an interval in the painting of Raphael's lover's ...

According to an article that appeared this week in Internal and Emergency Medicine, a journal published by the Italian Society of Internal Medicine, the painter likely died from a pulmonary disease.

The system is more accurate than the human eye and was able to analyze the painting's similarities to another, created by Raphael. The Italian Renaissance painter is considered "more versatile ...

When it comes to the Renaissance greats, Raphael surely needs no introduction ... In only 37 years of life, the painter and architect gained a huge following for compositions that seamlessly ...

By Farah Nayeri LONDON — The news sent tremors through Italy and the European continent: On April 6, 1520, Raphael — painter, draughtsman, architect, archaeologist and all-around genius ...

Rudolf Hiller von Gaertringen, an art historian at the University of Leipzig who co-wrote a compendium of Raphael’s work, said he does not think the painter would have produced a copy of figures ...

Experts believe the allegorical figure of Justice, depicted in the Room of Constantine, is the work of the master painter (Wikimedia Commons) Two masterpieces by Renaissance painter Raphael have ...

A mystery work which was recently found to "undoubtedly" be by Renaissance painter Raphael has gone on show in Bradford, the first time it has ever been seen on public display. Teams from the ...