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Considering the meanings of “Raphael: Sublime Poetry” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Raphael, The Virgin and Child with Infant Saint John the; Baptist in a Landscape (The Alba Madonna) around 1509 ...

This blockbuster exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art humanizes a lapsed god of painting. Critic’s Pick This blockbuster exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art humanizes a lapsed god of ...

Detail of Raphael, "Saint Sebastian in Half Length" (c. 1502–3), tempera grassa and oil, with gold highlights, on wood (all photos Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) “Nature created him as a gift to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Carmen Bambach decided she absolutely needed to have a painting for her sweeping Raphael ...

A survey of this giant of Renaissance art opens this month at the Met. Three experts show us why he matters as much as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. By Blake Gopnik For centuries, the ...

There was nothing he couldn’t do. This was Renaissance biographer Giorgio Vasari’s conclusion about Raphael (1483-1520), the view of his contemporaries and his patrons, and a reasonable conclusion ...

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Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, or Raphael, is one of the greatest artists of all time and was part of the Holy Trinity of the High Renaissance alongside Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. Raphael was ...