History Revealed

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Four years and 300 figures later, Michelangelo created a transcendent masterpiece – and he wasn’t done there  Michelangelo, the Italian artist, sculptor and architect, didn’t want the commission of painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, not cons

Guardian Weekly

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Raphael is a revelation. It could hardly be otherwise, since this is the first exhibition outside Italy ever to encompass every aspect of his stupendous career. It runs through paint, chalk and print, wool, bronze and ink, and from the earliest drawi

Country Life

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A GARGANTUAN three-volume publication depicting Michelangelo and other Renaissance Masters’ works from the Sistine Chapel in 1:1 scale has been produced as part of the Vatican’s ongoing conservation work, in an English-language edition of 600. Alread

Artists Magazine

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“My favorite draftsman of all time is Adolph Menzel [German, 1815–1905] who was always prepared to draw. One of his overcoats had eight pockets for sketchbooks of different sizes. An especially large pocket held a leather case with a big sketchbook,

Artists Magazine

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In his short life spanning just 37 years, Raphael (née Raffaello Santi de’ Urbino, 1483–1520) accomplished incredible feats not only in painting and architecture but also in drawing, design and archaeology. Like fellow Italian Renaissance artists Mic

Country Life

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WHO was the Renaissance’s perfect Renaissance Man? It was a question pondered by the grandee-portraitist Joshua Reynolds when he established the Royal Academy in 1768. Reynolds wanted to foster homegrown painters who could look the Continentals in th

The American Scholar

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IN 1510, 27-YEAR-OLD Raphael Sanzio became the talk of Renaissance Rome. His commission to paint two frescoes on the walls of the private apartments of Pope Julius II—which were anything but private—had led to an exclusive engagement to decorate the

Robb Report

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It was a rocky year for the art world. The pandemic forced museums and galleries to close for months on end. Long-planned exhibitions were delayed. Revenues from ticket sales, galas and membership dues were lost. When museums did reopen, they operate

NPR

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Now there's a new spectacle where visitors can feast their eyes on every detail of Michelangelo's masterpieces, with high-definition projections, actors, acrobats and music.

Artists & Illustrators

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RAFFAELLO SANZIO DA URBINO – also known as Raphael – seems to have been one of those infuriating people blessed with everything: he was handsome, charming, popular and multitalented. Born in Urbino, Italy in 1483, he is best known for his painting bu

Country Life

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COMMUTER-BELT Surrey might seem an unlikely place to find a direct link to one of art’s greatest painters, to the Medici Pope Leo X and to the fabled tapestries he commissioned for the Sistine Chapel. However, The Lightbox, Woking’s neat gallery and

Evening Standard

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There are relatively few artists whose greatness was recognised in their own day and whose standing has remained unaltered ever since: Raphael is one. Georgio Vasari, the painter-biographer who tells us most of what we know about him, observed that

You South Africa

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The Sistine Chapel is situated in the Vatican City in Rome, Italy. Building started in 1473 and was completed in 1481. The chapel is world-renowned for its ceiling and wall paintings (frescos) done by Renaissance artist Michelangelo. The paintings de

Domus

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Quando Cartesio preparò la sua lista delle “passioni primitive” non dimenticò d’inserire nell’elenco la meraviglia. Il filosofo la definiva “un’improvvisa sorpresa dell’anima”, Brunello Cucinelli la chiama bellezza. “Un valore universale che abbiamo

History Revealed

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1m The number of people believed to have died in Ireland during the famine of 1845–49 300 The number of figures that Michelangelo painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel £1,313 The cost of the jewel-encrusted crown given to Joan of Navarre by

All About History

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Rudolf’s collection of artworks included masterpieces by many of the leading artists of the Renaissance. As well as the great Italians such as Caravaggio, Veronese, Titian and Tintoretto, he acquired pieces by leaders of the northern Renaissance – Bo

Evening Standard

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Fame, acclaim, notoriety - all are often attached to great artists, but divinity is rarely bestowed on any but the saints. Raphael was one of those rarities, compared with Christ after he died at the age of 37 on April 6, 1520 (Good Friday; a conveni

TechLife News

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In the Netherlands, the intimate gaze of the Girl with the Pearl Earring can once again startle and entice visitors. Down in Spain, the rusty maze of steel sheets by Richard Serra is a wonderland anew for art lovers. And at the Vatican’s Sistine Chap

AppleMagazine

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In the Netherlands, the intimate gaze of the Girl with the Pearl Earring can once again startle and entice visitors. Down in Spain, the rusty maze of steel sheets by Richard Serra is a wonderland anew for art lovers. And at the Vatican’s Sistine Chap

Los Angeles Times

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"The Two Popes" stars Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce as Pope Benedict XVI and the soon-to-be Pope Francis, respectively. Directed by Fernando Meirelles, the Netflix movie imagines a number of enlightening conversations that may have taken place b

History Revealed

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It was not only his seemingly boundless genius that made Michelangelo a true master of Renaissance art, equalled perhaps by Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael alone. He also worked his way into the world of the rich and powerful of Italy. With them as pat

ASPIRE DESIGN AND HOME

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Most little boys say they want to be a fireman or police chief when they grow up. Not Jago Jacopo Cardillo. He told his parents he wanted to be like Michelangelo. Now, at 31, he has achieved star status, winning myriad prizes that range from the Holy

Italia magazine

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Viale Vaticano http://m.museivaticani.va After three years as pope, Julius II (pontiff 1503-13) decided to move out of the papal apartments in the Vatican, which were decorated to the taste of his predecessor, Pope Alexander VI Borgia (pontiff 1492-1

Artists Magazine

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The figures in Dinnerstein’s Confrontation at Fort Dix (above) reference figures on the right of Raphael’s fresco The Expulsion of Heliodorus From the Temple (bottom left). Dinnerstein’s sketch of Raphael’s figures (bottom right) shows their composit

The Artist Magazine

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THE ARC Jewry Street, Winchester SO23 8SB ☎️ 0370 779 6833 www.arcwinchester.org.uk Extraordinary Everyday: The Art & Design of Eric Ravilious explores the career of this much-loved British painter, designer, ceramicist, book illustrator and wood eng

You South Africa

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A visitor admires the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican City in early February, when the city state reopened. The Vatican had been closed to the public amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The Sistine Chapel was built between 1473 and 1481 and is

Country Life

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THIS year marks the 500th anniversary of the death of Raphael, whose untimely demise cut short a career pivotal to the course of Western art (Visual Arts, page 78). Here are some highlights celebrating the achievements of this giant of the Italian Hi

Artists & Illustrators

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As part of the worldwide celebrations marking the 500th anniversary of Raphael’s death, this exhibition also tells the fascinating story of how the great Renaissance master captured the imagination of Prince Albert. In 1853, the Prince Consort embark

Country Life

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RAPHAEL SANTI (or Sanzio) of Urbino was the epitome of the well-rounded Renaissance man, celebrated for his many talents as a painter, draughtsman, architect, poet and tapestry designer. A towering figure of the Italian Renaissance alongside contempo

All About History

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A member of the Medici family, Pope Leo X was the second son of Lorenzo the Magnificent and a noted patron of numerous scholars and poets, including the prominent author Baldassare Castiglione. He continued the various artistic efforts left unfinishe