Just as the First Sunday of Lent’s Gospel is always Jesus’ Temptation in the Desert, so the Second Sunday’s is always his Transfiguration. The Church officially celebrates the Solemnity of the ...

But success came at a price: Wealthy and powerful men all over Italy wanted his services. Unfinished commissions were piling up. Raphael turned to his large team of assistants to execute his brilliant ...

The Sistine Chapel, the Pio Clementino Museum, the Chiaramonti Museum, the New Wing, the Niccoline Chapel, and the Room of the Chiaroscuri can also be viewed via virtual tour on the Vatican Museums ...

Raphael Sanzio, one of the most illustrious painters of the Italian Renaissance, left an indelible mark on the world of art. Born in Urbino in 1483, Raphael quickly rose to prominence due to his ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. How then to present Raphael to a modern museum-going public mostly ignorant of classical mythology, indifferent ...

According to the Amsterdam art historian Margriet van Eikema Hommes, the very deep shadows and the extremely dark background in the bottom half of Raphael's last painting, The Transfiguration of ...

Following a battle between four bidders on Wednesday, the hammer eventually came down at Sotheby's auction house on a bid cast by telephone, making "Head of an Apostle" (c.1519-20) the second most ...

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