Marking the 500th anniversary of the artist’s death, an exhibition delayed by the pandemic is meant to present an “antidote” to the world’s turmoil. By Farah Nayeri LONDON — The news sent tremors ...

Raphael`s figures are contiguous in a narrow compass, as if for protection, as in The Holy Family with a Lamb (Prado, 1507), or within a rigid geometrical frame, as in the Alba Madonna (Washington ...

Over the past half century, the art of Raphael has rather fallen out of fashion, said Alastair Sooke in The Daily Telegraph. Latter-day critics “carp” that his work is simply “too perfect”; his ...

Bindo Altoviti is surely among the most handsome men ever rendered in paint. Raphael’s vivid portrait (c. 1516-18) of the Florentine banker forms part of the extraordinary final room of the exhibition ...

Raphael, "The Madonna of the Pinks" ("La Madonna dei Garofani") (c. 1506-7), oil on yew 11 x 8.8 inches (© The National Gallery, London) LONDON — Art has triumphed over the pandemic! Raphael, that ...