Get ready, artists! The Princes Czartoryski Museum in Krakow, Poland, is launching an international art contest that will ...

Raphael, Self portrait (1506-1508 ... Why were Impressionists obsessed with the color purple? Art Bites brings you a surprising fact, lesser-known anecdote, or curious event from art history.

The Renaissance was full of world-famous rivalries: from the Medici and the Pazzi families who feuded over who would rule Florence, to Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo who scrapped over ...

Renaissance master Raphael gave himself a nose job in his 1506 self-portrait, according to researchers ... him and his contemporaries. However, an art critic for the Rome newspaper La Repubblica ...

In an interview with the World Art News, Di Maria pointed out that ... In response to comments that the painting looks similar to Raphael’s self-portraits, she said: “This resemblance can ...

“He was working with such technical refinement already at this point in his career,” Daria Foner, an art historian ... that we associate with Raphael.” A self-portrait of Raphael at age ...

When it comes to the Renaissance greats, Raphael surely needs no introduction ... Making the list were a gentle, doe-eyed self-portrait from 1506, the rousing elegance of The Triumph of Galatea ...

To prepare for the portraits, Raphael first made full-scale spolveri drawings of his subjects. He then poked the main contours of the drawings with holes, placed the sketches on top of the canvas ...