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

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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.

There were reports that Raphael had wanted to decorate the rooms not with frescoes, but with oil paint directly on the wall, to give the images greater brilliance. The 10-year restoration of the Room ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...