The tragically short yet miraculous career of Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known simply as Raphael, is a wonder even to this day, as a dazzling new exhibition at the National Gallery in London reminds ...

Thanks to trips around the U.S. and Europe, I've seen no shortage of masterpiece paintings. And plenty of works by Raphael, including the rooms he frescoed in the Vatican. But seeing one get uncrated ...

He was a child prodigy who became one of the most famous artists in the world, and more than 6 million tourists come to see his work at the Vatican Museums every year. Raphael Sanzio, better known ...

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 ...

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The best things come to those who wait - and that's certainly the case for the Room of Constantine. Taking a decade to complete, it's the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms at the ...