Raphael and Dürer struck up a long-distance friendship when they were at the peak of their popularity, living over 600 miles ...

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino—known simply as Raphael to most—was part of the Holy Trinity of the High Renaissance, along with two other guys named Leonardo and Michelangelo. An artist of ...

The Sistine Madonna is one of the world’s most famous Renaissance paintings. Raphael showed his great creativity by making this piece, which depicts the Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus in her ...

Famed Italian Renaissance artist Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, normally called “Raphael” in English, was born April 6, 1483 and died on his 37th birthday, April 6, 1520. Though the Vatican has ...

Often, they were preparatory studies for finished paintings or works ... rather than its own claws. Raphael, that famous lover, was one of only a handful of Renaissance artists to draw from ...

Raphael’s sweet Madonnas set a new standard in High Renaissance painting. Raphael combined the grace of Leonardo, the power of Michelangelo, and the humanist spirit of the age. The master of ...

On X, these photos are all dubbed "Renaissance paintings" due to their varying degrees of resemblance to the work of 15th century Italian masters like Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo.

But since you can talk to the Renaissance master about his painting, and since there could be several reasons why Raphael himself might have opted for this particular display of St. Joseph ...