A ten-year conservation project has shed light on how the artist attempted to work with a system involving a grid of nails ...

The Vatican Museums have unveiled its newly restored Hall of Constantine, one of its Raphael Rooms, including two newly ...

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

In a way, we have rewritten the history of art,” explained Barbara Jatta, director of the Vatican Museums, during a ...

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 ...

They were therefore clearly the work of Raphael himself, he said. Raphael died on April 6, 1520, at the age of 37, before the hall could be completed. Jatta said that the rest of the paintings in the ...

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

Even at the time, 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 ...

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.