The painting measures less than 15 inches tall and just over 5 inches wide. The verso of the panel includes part of a Marian prayer. Sotheby's New York A tiny portrait of Mary Magdalene by Raphael has ...

If you post anything on the internet, or get caught in the background of someone else’s footage, there’s a risk you’ll end up in a meme. But 500 years ago when Raphael was painting Agnolo and ...

In a meeting of high art and state-of-the-art facial recognition, researchers say they’ve used artificial intelligence to determine that a circular painting of the Virgin Mary and the child Jesus, ...

FLORENCE, Italy — Last Sunday evening, soon after the final visitors had trickled out of the historic Palazzo Pitti, Eike Schmidt, the director of the Uffizi Gallery gathered with other museum ...

Raphael probably didn’t like his nose, and replaced it with an idealised version in his famous self-portrait. That is the conclusion of Rome University scientists who produced a 3D computer ...