Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino—known simply as Raphael to most—was part of the Holy Trinity of the High Renaissance ... Raphael’s original drawings have baby John the Baptist in a crown of ...

Raphael, that famous lover, was one of only a handful of Renaissance artists to draw from the nude female ... a flawless red-chalk life study of a male model, with the immaculately contoured ...

Raphael and Titian are on view in a show that exemplifies the exquisite and layered history of drawing during the Italian Renaissance. The artworks all come from the Royal Collection, belonging to ...

Raphael, for instance ... "heroic" vision of Jesus with "an impressively honed male physique far removed from daily reality". Renaissance drawings were generally used as preparatory tools ...