ReviewBooks
A Roman Raphael: how scholars view the Old Master at 500
A survey of books published on the artist's quincentenary shows that attention has shifted to his Roman period and tapestry designs
NewsVictoria & Albert Museum
Raphael Cartoons are ready for their close-up on V&A website
High-resolution images of Renaissance treasures go online, revealing the tiniest details of Raphael’s creative process
ReviewThe Year in Review 2020
No shows: the biggest cancelled exhibitions of 2020
From the saga over a controversially delayed Philip Guston show to an under appreciated female Old Master whose big moment never came
NewsRussia
US and Russia 'leave aside the politics' to restore Raphael frescoes
A grant of over $100,000 has been given from the US to St Petersburg's State Hermitage Museum for the maintenance of three 16th-century school of Raphael works
NewsMuseums & Heritage
Discover Raphael’s creative process with new state-of-the-art renovation of V&A's Cartoons Court
New 3D imagery reveals secrets of the Renaissance masterpieces as space reopens in time for 500th anniversary of Old Master's death
ReviewExhibitions
The Big Review: Raphael at the Scuderie del Quirinale
The stimulating show in Rome tells the life story of one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance—but in reverse
NewsExhibitions
London's National Gallery extends Titian and delays Raphael blockbusters amid Covid-19 crisis
The museum is expected to reopen in July or August
NewsExhibitions
Major Raphael show in Rome returns for three-month run
Securing the loan extensions was “really easy” says director of the Scuderie del Quirinale
NewsExhibitions
Museums wrangle to extend exhibition loans beyond lockdown
Delicate negotiations with lenders are under way to postpone major European shows of Raphael, Artemisia Gentileschi and Christo
Newscoronavirus
Take a virtual tour of once-in-a-lifetime Raphael show in Rome that closed after four days due to coronavirus
Video is part of Italy's "Culture never stops!" initiative providing online access to cultural and heritage sites
Newscoronavirus
Coronavirus in Italy: Ai Weiwei criticised for 'insensitive' pasta meme and Raphael blockbuster closes
An emergency decree means that all museums in the country are on lock down until 3 April
PreviewExhibitions
Largest ever number of Raphaels gathered for ‘mega-exhibition’ in Rome
Survey at the Scuderie del Quirinale is jointly organised by the Uffizi in Florence and will focus on the Renaissance master's crucial Roman period
NewsExhibitions
Uffizi scientific committee resigns in dispute over Raphael loan
The committee had advised against moving Raphael’s portrait of Pope Leo X; the museum loaned it to Rome’s Scuderie del Quirinale regardless
NewsRaphael
For this week only: unrepeatable chance to see Raphael’s tapestries with Michelangelo’s ceiling
The Vatican Museums celebrate Raphael’s 500th anniversary by hanging his tapestries in the Sistine Chapel for which they were created
ReviewBook Shorts
The story of how a Renaissance papal librarian took up residence in New England is uncovered in this book
The authors explain who Tommaso Inghirami was and how the first painting by Raphael came to the US
NewsArt market
'Close to Raphael' Madonna sells for €1.27m at Vienna’s Dorotheum
A leading Italian art historian attributed it to Raphael and associates before the sale
NewsArt market
Is this a Raphael? Madonna and Child painting to be auctioned at Dorotheum in Vienna
The work, previously unknown to scholars, was until now in a private ducal collection
NewsExhibitions
Raphael revelry: National Gallery secures exceptional loans for 500th anniversary of artist's death
London exhibition in 2020 includes around 30 paintings, 20 of which will come from international museums
NewsRaphael
After Leonardo, the spotlight is on Raphael for the 500th anniversary of his death next year
There will be a rash of shows on the Renaissance master, the largest will be in Rome
NewsRenaissance
Restored Raphael cartoon gets new display at Milan’s Biblioteca Ambrosiana
The full-scale preparatory drawing for the Vatican’s School of Athens fresco is going back on view after a four-year restoration
ReviewExhibitions
‘Everything refers to everything else’: Vienna exhibitions reveal impact of other artists on Raphael and Rubens
Concurrent surveys in Austrian capital also show how travel inspired the Old Masters
ArchiveExhibitions
A long history of scholarship drives survey of Raphael’s drawings currently exhibited at the Ashmolean
Debate over attribution has marked modern scholarship on this great master, bringing nuance to the Oxford show
ArchiveConservation
Vatican begins final work on Raphael rooms
The work may make it possible to identify which parts of the frescoes were painted by Giulio Romano, Raphael’s most trusted apprentice
ArchiveNews
‘Lost Raphael’ surfaces in Spain
The University of Granada says it has found an authentic copy of Raphael’s Madonna of Foligno
ArchiveNews
Städel shows off its ‘new’ portrait by Raphael
The painting came up for sale at auction in 2007 in Vienna, where it was catalogued as being by an “imitator” of Raphael
ArchiveRaphael
Colour restored to Vatican’s Raphaels
After more than a decade, restoration of the monumental fresco cycle has finally been completed
ArchiveArt market
Old Masters auctions: Raphael stars in mixed London sales
Raphael’s Head of a Young Apostle was the centre of attention during London’s Old Master week last month
ArchiveExhibitions
Raphael’s prep work on show at the Städel Museum
11 of the museum's works will be exhibited alongside 40 others loaned from around the world
ArchiveBooks
Books: Raphael—all things to all ages
Three new monographs show the artist is still the equal of Leonardo and Michelangelo, if not so popular
ArchiveMuseums
Raphaels discovered in Haarlem Teylers Museum
The head curator recently reattributed the works to the artist
ArchiveExhibitions
Prodigious, prolific, phenomenal: Raphael’s last 17 years in Rome on show at the Louvre
The Prado and the Louvre collaborate for a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition
ArchiveNews
Raphaels reunited for the Pope’s German visit
The Pope apparently insisted that the Vatican's Raphael’s Madonna di Foligno be displayed alongside Dresden’s own Raphael, painted in the same year
ArchiveExhibitions
Vatican lends Raphael’s finest tapestries
Papal blessing and private funder for Victoria and Albert Museum’s Sistine show
ArchiveVatican
The V&A and the RA compete to present a Vatican show timed to coincide with the first state visit to Britain of Pope Benedict XVI
V&A will reunite Raphael’s Sistine tapestries with their cartoons for first time in 500 years
ArchiveExhibitions
'The Gonzaga Tapestries: from Mantegna to Raphael and Giulio Romano' goes on show in Mantua
The surviving tapestries come together at the Museo Civico Palazzo del Tè from 14 March - 27 June
ArchiveChristie's
Top quality old masters under the hammer next month
Rembrandt, Domenichino, Raphael and Van Dyck all on offer, but how many will remain in the UK?
ArchiveNational Gallery
The National Gallery discloses further information on Raphael's "Madonna of the pinks"
Still excluded from the material was correspondence we had requested relating to the final price of £22 million
ArchiveMuseums
The National Gallery purchases Raphael’s Madonna of the pinks: What we know
The Raphael was bought by the National Gallery for £22 million in February 2004
ArchiveExhibitions
Complex negotiations for National Gallery's Raphael show
Fragility of panels has made museums reluctant to lend
ArchiveNews
The National Gallery secures Raphael
The Getty Museum loses out on “Madonna of the pinks”
ArchiveNews
The future of Raphael’s "Madonna of the pinks" still hangs in the balance
A lottery grant of £11.5 million may not be enough to keep the painting at the National Gallery
ArchiveNews
National Gallery reaches out to the underprivileged in bid to save Raphael from export
“The Madonna of the pinks” may have been painted for a nun in Perugia
ArchiveMuseums & Heritage
Britain may lose Omai (twice) and an exquisite Raphael
Tate and the National Gallery reverse longstanding softly, softly policy over purchases to try to retain masterpieces
ArchiveExhibitions
Raphael, Cellini and a Renaissance banker: The patronage of Bindo Altoviti at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Tracing the patron, rather than the artist
ArchiveMuseums
National Gallery and Getty fight over Raphael
The California museum has bought the Duke of Northumberland’s “Madonna of the pinks” for $50 million
ArchiveExhibitions
Cleveland Museum of Art opens three new Old Masters exhibitions
This makes it the first US city host Raphael drawings from the Lille Palais des beaux-arts’ renowned collection
ArchiveExhibitions
From Raphael to Tiepolo: Three centuries of Italian masterpieces come together at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
The decadent show includes works from the Budapest Museum of Dine Arts, and is open until 4 August
ArchiveRaphael
Senatorial pulling power brings Raphaels to France
Despite curators’ protests, the French senate has pushed through a Raphael exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg, Paris
ArchiveNews
Ferrero International uses art to sell chocolate
Raphael candy ad schlock
ArchiveBooks
Books: Unusual angles and changing perspectives of Renaissance Masters
Raphael gets assessed according to the theories of Rudolph Steiner and Vasari’s judgement of Andrea del Sarto is reversed
ArchivePalazzo Pitti
Titian and Raphael portraits that launched 1,000 faces
Raphael’s “Donna Velata” and Titian’s “Young Englishman” have become two of the most influential paintings by Renaissance masters
ArchiveExhibitions
Raphael’s lines of influence at the Queen's Gallery
The Royal collection of drawings by Raphael and his circle to cross the Atlantic
ArchiveExhibitions
The National Gallery provides a grand overview of Lorenzo Lotto, the 16th century painter with a still undefined image
The exhibition contains some stunning examples of Lorenzo Lotto’s approach to portraiture, which is to show the private rather than the public individual
ArchiveConservation & Preservation
Raphael’s use of shading revealed as the “Parnassus” restoration is almost completed
The Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican shows the master at his best
ArchiveVictoria & Albert Museum
Peanuts this ain’t: the V&A's Raphael Court to reopen
Refurbishment has cost £2 million
ArchiveRaphael
Experts suggest Raphael's cartoons conceived as rivals to Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel
Detailed study of the V&A's Raphael cartoons suggests he painted them as independent works of art
ArchiveNews
Painting captured in police sting is by Raphael, says leading expert
The owner's careless sales technique led the carabinieri right to his doorstep
ArchiveMuseums
Edinburgh acquires Raphael drawing
It is now the National Gallery's second drawing by Raphael
ArchiveConservation & Preservation
Japanese barter the restoration of Urbino’s walls in exchange for a Raphael exhibition
Florence's soprintendente has described the proposal as “blackmail”
ArchiveRaphael
Raphael re-discovered in Northumberland Collection
Raphael’s “Madonna of the Pinks” has now been firmly reattributed after cleaning
ArchiveExhibitions
New exhibition on Cola dell’ Amatrice, a Raphaelesque shrinking violet
The exhibition at he Pinacoteca Civica di Palazzo Arringo is open until 15 October
ArchiveArt market
Marcos Collection shines in upcoming Christie's sale
Fresh information has confirmed the importance of the works which will be put on the block
ArchiveArt market
Marcos treasures arrive in New York for upcoming Christie's sale
The Philippines to auction the Collection to set up an agricultural reform programme
Commentcoronavirus
Letter from Italy: the churches—open, but without services—are the only place to see art
The Art Newspaper's founder-editor Anna Somers Cocks on the impact of Covid-19 on Turin, where she is in lockdown
Anna Somers Cocks