When it comes to the Renaissance greats, Raphael surely needs no introduction. His huge impact on the course of Western art ...

On April 6th, we celebrate the Raphae’s birthday, one of the greatest masters of the Italian Renaissance: Born in 1483 in ...

The name Raphael was rare when when Social Security’s yearly name lists started. Now, there is renaissance of this Renaissance artist’s name.

Raphael, that famous lover, was one of only a handful of Renaissance artists to draw from the nude female model. A couple of head studies by Federico Barocci are drop-dead gorgeous. A few ...

Now an AI neural network has identified something unusual about a face in a Raphael painting: It wasn't actually painted by Raphael. The face in question belongs to St Joseph, seen in the top left ...

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