The Corcoran Gallery of Art was adorned with the statues, commissioned in the late 1800s. But since then, they've changed ...

Raphael depicts three naked women in back- and front-facing views, perhaps mimicking the dancing muses from Boticelli’s Primavera (c. 1470) or, more likely, a classical Greek sculpture of the ...

Several of the most influential Greek philosophers and thinkers are portrayed in Raphael's masterpiece, the School of Athens.

The cause of Raphael’s untimely death has long been a mystery. Some theorists have posited that promiscuity was the cause of his demise in the form of syphilis, but this all changed in 2020.

Like Raphael, Dürer demonstrated his artistic skill in childhood while training to become a goldsmith under his father, and being apprenticed as an artist aged 15. The pair never met, spending ...

Despite Raphael’s young age at the time of its creation, the artist was already taking frequent commissions, having taken over his the workshop of his father, who died when Raphael was just 13.