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This blockbuster exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art humanizes a lapsed god of painting. Critic’s Pick This blockbuster exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art humanizes a lapsed god of ...

Detail of Raphael, "Saint Sebastian in Half Length" (c. 1502–3), tempera grassa and oil, with gold highlights, on wood (all photos Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) “Nature created him as a gift to the ...

A survey of this giant of Renaissance art opens this month at the Met. Three experts show us why he matters as much as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. By Blake Gopnik For centuries, the ...

There was nothing he couldn’t do. This was Renaissance biographer Giorgio Vasari’s conclusion about Raphael (1483-1520), the view of his contemporaries and his patrons, and a reasonable conclusion ...

Nuns sold off the ‘Colonna Altarpiece’ bit by bit. Now the Met has put it back together. Raphael’s first altarpiece was disassembled in the 17th century and sold off piece by piece. The Metropolitan ...

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, or Raphael, is one of the greatest artists of all time and was part of the Holy Trinity of the High Renaissance alongside Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. Raphael was ...

In his 37 years of life, Raffaello di Giovanni Santi, who would come to be known simply as Raphael, rose from painting altarpieces in countryside churches to grand frescoes in the Vatican palace, ...