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 ...

“Vittorio Sgarbi is the first to suggest an attribution to the master, Silverman said. “Now I’m going to let the experts have their say and see if a consensus emerges. For my part, all that I can say ...

Raphael died in Rome in 1520 aged 37, probably from pneumonia, and was buried in Rome's Pantheon - his self-portrait was completed 15 years before he died. Renaissance master Raphael gave himself a ...

One of the most visually stunning objects to reside in the city right now may also be the most intellectually vexing. The exhibition “Sublime Beauty,” which opened to the public Saturday, Jan. 9, at ...

In a meeting of high art and state-of-the-art facial recognition, researchers say they’ve used artificial intelligence to determine that a circular painting of the Virgin Mary and the child Jesus, ...

A painting of Lorenzo de'Medici, ruler of Florence from 1513 to 1519, by Renaissance master Raphael will be put on the block in July and is expected to fetch up to $30 million US, according to ...

Renaissance master Raphael gave himself a nose job in his 1506 self-portrait, according to researchers who created a 3D reconstruction of his skull. Scientists from Rome University produced the ...

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 ...

ROME (Reuters) - Raphael probably didn't like his nose, and replaced it with an idealised version in his famous self-portrait. That is the conclusion of Rome University scientists who produced a 3D ...

The portrait of one of Jesus Christ's key followers was put up for sale by a London art gallery, where curators thought it had less than impressive provenance. It was bought by an anonymous French ...