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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But success came at a price: Wealthy and powerful men all over Italy wanted his services. Unfinished commissions were piling up. Raphael turned to his large team of assistants to execute his brilliant ...