Vatican launches five-year restoration of Raphael’s Loggia
A team of 20 restorers is to use laser technology on one of the most significant projects in the Vatican Museums’ history – Raphael’s Loggia.
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On this day: birth of artist Fra Bartolommeo
Born 28 March 1472 in Savignano di Prato, Tuscany, Fra Bartolommeo, a Dominican friar and High Renaissance master, whose figures were said to move “with a seraphic grace that must have struck the young Raphael with the force of revelation.”
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On this day in history: death of Raphael
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known to history simply as Raphael, died on 6 April 1520, aged just 37. The date marked the end of one of the most influential careers in Western art. Raphael died in Rome at the height of his fame, mourned so deeply that, according to accounts of the time, a crack […]
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On this day in History: Agostino Chigi born
A major sponsor of artists during the Renaissance, banker Agostino Chigi was born on 29th November, 1466 in Siena.
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