The identity of the young man seated in the foreground of Raphael's painting, known as Self-Portrait with Friend or Double Portrait, kept at the Musée du Louvre where it entered in 1792, has remained shrouded in mystery until now1. The scene d...
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An important drawing by Raphael (Urbino, 1483 - Rome, 1520) has been found: it is a study for the scene of the Battle of Ponte Milvio painted in the Vatican Stanze, specifically in the Hall of Constantine. It will be auctioned Oct. 25 by Dorotheum, w...
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Here we are again with Cardinal Scipione Borghese. He had this painting hastily taken from the Franciscan convent near Perugia by counting it on to the friars, telling them that it was too important a work to be guarded so poorly and would therefore ...
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Tucked away among the medieval alleys of Perugia, after a steep climb, is a quiet and little-known place, far from the routes of mass tourism, where it is possible to see two great masters of art history side by side, in comparison, namel...
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Raphael Sanzio was not born a painter and then became an architect, but he was an architect from the very beginning of his activity as an artist. This is what Raphael intends to demonstrate. Born an Architect, the exhibition proposed by the Palladio ...
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The Madonna del Baldacchino, Raphael's unfinished masterpiece, will return to Pescia Cathedral, where it was originally located, from April 29 to July 30, 2023. The Uffizi, the museum that now preserves Raphael Sanzio 's important altarpiece (in fact...
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The Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna in its rich patrimony holds the historical-artistic axis of the City's pulse, and lately it has opened up to luminous initiatives of extraordinary vitality in connection with important anniversaries or events capab...
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The appointment with the traditional Christmas exhibition of the Diocesan Museum "Carlo Maria Martini" in Milan is renewed: this year the "Masterpiece for Milan" (this is the name of the exhibition from a single work) is the predella of the Pala Oddi...
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