The place of Raphael's “Transfiguration” in an art museum and not in a place of worship means the “most beautiful painting in the world” has lost most of its ability to speak, an article in ...

[Full entry reads: "The Transfiguration, from the original of Raphael, in the Vatican, at Rome."] A Catalogue of Paintings, by G. Cooke, now exhibiting at No. 86 Broadway, First Door below Wall-Street ...

Raphael Sanzio, one of the most illustrious painters of the Italian Renaissance, left an indelible mark on the world of art. Born in Urbino in 1483, Raphael quickly rose to prominence due to his ...

The Sistine Chapel, the Pio Clementino Museum, the Chiaramonti Museum, the New Wing, the Niccoline Chapel, and the Room of the Chiaroscuri can also be viewed via virtual tour on the Vatican Museums ...

According to the Amsterdam art historian Margriet van Eikema Hommes, the very deep shadows and the extremely dark background in the bottom half of Raphael's last painting, The Transfiguration of ...

Just as the First Sunday of Lent’s Gospel is always Jesus’ Temptation in the Desert, so the Second Sunday’s is always his Transfiguration. The Church officially celebrates the Solemnity of the ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. How then to present Raphael to a modern museum-going public mostly ignorant of classical mythology, indifferent ...

Catalogue of Works of Art in the Permanent and Loaned Collections of the Yale School of Fine Arts, founded as a Department of Yale College, by the late Augustus Russell Street. Winter Exhibition. The ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...