VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican Museums on Thursday unveiled the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms, the ...

Masterpieces to rival the Sistine Chapel, the magnificent Raphael Rooms are so-named for the renowned Renaissance master who was commissioned to complete them by Pope Julius II in 1509. The ...

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican Museums on Thursday unveiled the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms, the spectacularly frescoed reception rooms of the Apostolic Palace that in some ...

But Raphael died on April 6, 1520, at the age of 37, and before the hall could be completed. The rest of the paintings in the room were frescoes completed by his students who couldn’t master the ...

After a decade-long cleaning and restoration, the Vatican Museums recently unveiled the "last and most important" room in the ...

The Raphael Rooms were never fully closed off to the public during their long restoration, but they are now free of scaffolding for the many visitors flocking to the Vatican Museums for the this ...

VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican Museums on Thursday unveiled the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms, the spectacularly frescoed reception rooms of the Apostolic Palace that in some ...

The reception room, which was painted by Raphael and his students starting in the first quarter-century of the 1500s, is dedicated to the fourth-century Roman emperor Constantine whose embrace of ...

A visitor admires a Raphael Room inside the Vatican Museums at the Vatican, on May 3, 2021. The museum unveiled the last restored Raphael Room Thursday after a 10-year cleaning project.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican Museums on Thursday unveiled the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms, the spectacularly frescoed reception rooms of the Apostolic Palace that in ...