The artist completed the painting ‘La Belle ... is his ‘Transfiguration’ piece, which illustrates Christ’s ascension to heaven, a heavy contrast to the human suffering below. Raphael ...

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La Trasfigurazione (The Transfiguration) La Trasfigurazione, or The Transfiguration, is one of Raphael’s final and most powerful masterpieces. Completed in 1520, just before his untimely death ...

The chalk drawing, dating from the early 16th century, is believed to have been an early study for Raphael’s masterpiece “Transfiguration,” which is located at the The Vatican. Sotheby’s ...

One was commissioned from Raphael, a depiction of the Transfiguration of Christ. The other painting, of the Raising of Lazarus, was assigned to a protégé of Michelangelo, Sebastiano del Piombo.

Sotheby's auctioneers had high hopes for the 16th century "Head of an Apostle," a study for Raphael's last painting "Transfiguration ... of the drama "Mystere de la Vengeance" dated around ...

One room in the Vatican Museums’ Pinacoteca, or painting gallery, displays Raphael’s Crowning of the Virgin, Madonna of Foligno, and The Transfiguration. “In this very unique week ...

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 ...

Almost £30 million is needed to save a drawing by Renaissance artist Raphael for the nation after ... head of one of the figures in the artist's Transfiguration altarpiece in the Vatican.