Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Carmen Bambach decided she absolutely needed to have a painting for her sweeping Raphael ...

Sublime Poetry,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Raphael, “Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn” (1505–06), oil on canvas transferred from panel (courtesy Galleria Borghese, Rome, all images via D Giles Limited) The 16th-century “Portrait of a Lady ...

For only the third time this century, an original painting by renowned Renaissance great Raphael Sanzio (1483–1520) is coming to auction. The diminutive oil-on-panel Saint Mary Magdalene, painted ...

One of the wonderful things about La Fornarina (circa 1520), a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael (1483-1520) currently One of the wonderful things about La Fornarina (circa 1520), a ...

Saint Cecilia is one of Rome’s most popular martyr saints, known for her ecstatic visions, communicating with God by singing, and convincing her husband to take a vow of chastity immediately after ...

For the first time in centuries, 10 magnificent tapestries designed by Renaissance master Raphael will hang together on the walls of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. The tapestries are usually only ...

The young man [Raphael] said, “Take courage! God’s healing is near; so take courage!” ―Tobit 5:10b The archangel Raphael is presented within the beautiful story of Tobit―a biblical novella within the ...

Above: The Alba Madonna (ca. 1509-11) is on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. for the Met’s new show, Raphael: Sublime Poetry. When ...