The place of Raphael's “Transfiguration” in an art museum and not in a place of worship means the “most beautiful painting in the world” has lost most of its ability to speak, an article in ...

Just as the First Sunday of Lent’s Gospel is always Jesus’ Temptation in the Desert, so the Second Sunday’s is always his Transfiguration. The Church officially celebrates the Solemnity of the ...

But success came at a price: Wealthy and powerful men all over Italy wanted his services. Unfinished commissions were piling up. Raphael turned to his large team of assistants to execute his brilliant ...

Catalogue of Works of Art in the Permanent and Loaned Collections of the Yale School of Fine Arts, founded as a Department of Yale College, by the late Augustus Russell Street. Winter Exhibition. The ...