WINNETKA, Ill. (WLS) -- When Tony Ayers visited England in 1995, he made a discovery that changed his life. He spotted a painting of the Madonna and child tucked away in an antiques store, and ...

Famed Italian Renaissance artist Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, normally called “Raphael” in English, was born April 6, 1483 and died on his 37th birthday, April 6, 1520. Though the Vatican has the ...

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Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty premieres on PBS on July 8, 2025. The series is narrated by Sophie Okonedo, and features Charles Dance as Michelangelo, Jonny Glynn as Leonardo da Vinci and ...

A renowned painting by Raphael, the Madonna della Rosa (Madonna of the Rose), has been scrutinized by AI, revealing that the Italian Renaissance painter may not have created the face of Joseph in the ...

Painting and sculpture may fetch the highest prices and become the most renowned artworks, but the humble medium of drawing has been crucially important in art history, if often operating behind the ...

Five essential museum exhibitions—from Raphael at the Met to Zurbarán in London—plus tarot and Ovid-themed highlights.

The British artist Sarah Biffin was born in 1784 without hands or feet. Fiercely independent, she wouldn’t allow her parents to carry her into church but instead rolled down the aisle to the family ...

Raphael’s fresco “The School of Athens” in the Vatican is among the most famous images in art history. Part of what makes it so striking is the barrel vault towering over the figures. In creating this ...

See the dude in the top left corner of the top of the painting above (Raphael's famous Madonna della Rosa)? That's St. Joseph lurking over the Madonna, the Child, and St. John. And yes, he does seem ...

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