Art: Raphael Reconsidered. 3 minute read. TIME. June 1, 1942 12:00 AM GMT-4. T o “rehabilitate” an artist who has been a favorite of plain people for four centuries is not so silly as it may ...

Raphael painted ‘The Triumph of Galatea,’ which depicts the Greek tale of Galatea and Pygmalion, for tycoon Agostino Chigi, who paid for the piece for his family villa.

Exhibiting a painting by the Renaissance master Raphael has generally been reserved for the world’s most famous art venues, such as the Louvre in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New ...

The ways of art collectors are just as mysterious as those of artists. Andrew Mellon once paid the Soviet government $1,166,400 for an example of Raphael’s genius, the Alba Madonna (TIME, March ...