Sublime Poetry,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

If pushed to name three Renaissance artists (or three Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael are probably most people’s picks (sorry, Donatello). The three giants of the ...

Renaissance tapestries make a challenging subject for a contemporary exhibition. Their size makes them difficult to move, their colors are fleeting and must be kept in low light and their historical ...

Six enormous, stunning tapestries designed by the Italian Renaissance master Raphael are being shown for the first time in the United States at the Columbus Museum of Art. “Raphael — The Power of ...

When Raphael: Sublime Poetry opens at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on March 29, it will mark a consequential moment in American museum history. It is the first comprehensive international loan ...

With the last half-millennium in mind, Raphael has arguably been the most important artist of the western canon, casting his harmonious spell everywhere from the frescoed walls of the Vatican’s ...

Konrad Oberhuber, 72, an art history scholar who specialized in drawings and was considered one of the world’s leading experts on the Renaissance artist Raphael, died of brain cancer Sept. 12 in San ...