It depicts Madonna holding the Christ Child in her lap and surrounded ... is one of the world’s most famous Renaissance paintings. Raphael showed his great creativity by making this piece ...

The current owner has refused to release the painting, despite admitting that she "never really liked it" and doesn't hang the picture.

A few feet away, a pen-and-ink study of the Virgin and Child by Raphael – who arrived ... lesson to good use in The ...

From these two titans, the young Raphael learned eagerly. His Bridgewater Madonna ... in this painting, he recreated the intertwining of the figures and the twisting movement of the child on ...

Raphael, a friend of Taddeo Taddei, was inspired by the Taddei Tondo. Several years later, the piece would influence the artist’s Bridgewater Madonna (1507-8), a painting featured nearby in the ...

At the turn of the 16th century, Florence was the scene for "what may have been the ultimate clash of the titans of Western art", said ... and Raphael's "Esterházy Madonna".

While the Madonna, the Child, and St John all show up as being created from the hand of Raphael, that's not the case of St Joseph. The researchers note that in previous debates over the painting's ...