Whether painting popes or prostitutes, the artist got beneath his subjects’ skin to reveal their inner lives – and reinvent portraiture Alastair Sooke has been covering art for the Telegraph since ...

LONDON — A rare portrait by Renaissance master Raphael that shows a Florentine ruler from the famed Medici family will be offered at a public auction this summer, Christie's said Monday. Christie's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists make 3-D reconstruction of face of Renaissance master Raphael ROME (Reuters) - Raphael probably didn't like his nose, ...

According to Italian art critic and former undersecretary of cultural heritage Vittorio Sgarbi, writing in Corriere della Sera‘s magazine Sette, a painting currently attributed to the followers of ...

Raphael, “Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn” (1505–06), oil on canvas transferred from panel (courtesy Galleria Borghese, Rome, all images via D Giles Limited) The 16th-century “Portrait of a Lady ...

Raphael had a deviated view of his own septum. The 15th-century Italian-born master painter — famous for his work on St. Peter’s Basilica and his lifelike figure drawings — painted himself with a ...

When Santiago Calatrava's Quadracci Pavilion with the Burke Brise Soleil went up, the international art world took notice. The latest fruit of that phenomenon is the appearance here of influential ...

A rare work by Renaissance painter Raphael will be put on the block and is expected to fetch up to $30 million US, according to auction house Christie's. Christie's officials say the portrait of ...

The famous Italian painter Raffaello Sanizo, or known as Raphael, died 500 years ago, but the site of his resting place has remained a mystery – until now. Scientists created a 3D reconstruction of ...

Italian researchers have created a 3D reconstruction of the face of Renaissance master Raphael, which they say proves once and for all that the artist was buried in the Pantheon in Rome. But ...