Raphael, that famous lover, was one of only a handful of Renaissance artists to draw from the nude female model. A couple of head studies by Federico Barocci are drop-dead gorgeous. A few ...

Discover the beauty of Renaissance paintings, where art, realism, and storytelling blend to create timeless masterpieces that ...

Raphael was one of the few Renaissance artists to draw from a nude female model. The earliest work in the show is Fra Angelico’s detailed head study The Bust of a Cleric, c.1447–50 ...

During the Renaissance, they thought, art had bogged down in formulas, divorced from the community of man, and had become the terrain of academicians for whom Raphael was the exemplar. True ...

Part of Raphael's "Madonna della Rosa" painting ... Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino is widely considered one of the most renowned artists of the Renaissance period for his paintings and frescoes ...

1510), Raphael’s red-chalk compositional study ... rejects the typical hierarchies one finds in exhibitions of Renaissance art—those that favor the famous over the unknown or anonymous ...