Raphael art links 

Raphael: The Small Cowper Madonna
Photograph by Sharon Mollerus, Creative Commons licensed

Original works by Raphael available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 

Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

Art Institute of Chicago   NEW!

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco   NEW!
Many works online

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
The Holy Family (The Madonna with Beardless Joseph), 1505-06
The Virgin and Child (The Madonna Conestabile), 1504

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Exhibition: Raphael at the Getty

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
6 works online by Raphael

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
See the "Italy 15th - 16th centuries" section

Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German)  

Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
Portrait of a Man, ca.1502-04 (Zoom)

Raphael at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Head and shoulders of a woman, in three-quarters profile facing left, with folded arms, ca.1505-07

Raphael at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione (1478–1529)

Raphael at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Saint Catherine of Alexandria, 1507-09

Raphael at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Saint Michael Overwhelming the Demon

Louvre Museum Database, Paris
9 paintings and 1 drawing

Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)  
Many copies after Raffaello Santi (Raphael) and works on paper attributed to his atelier; the works on paper by the artist himself begin around page 86

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City   NEW!  

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City   NEW!  

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston   NEW!
Paintings collection online

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh   NEW!

National Gallery, London, UK
How to Spot a Raphael: The Madonna of the Pinks

National Gallery, London, UK

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.   NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Prado Museum Database, Madrid   NEW!
(Linking to the Spanish-language version because it contains far more works than the English version)

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam   NEW!

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.   NEW!

The Royal Collection, London, UK

Vatican Museums, Vatican City
Paintings from the Raphael room of the Pinacoteca

Vatican Museums, Vatican City
The Raphael Stanze

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
The Three Graces, red chalk drawing, ca.1517-1518

Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
99 works by or related to the artist

Drawings from the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan

Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK   NEW!

Galleria Borghese, Rome
The Deposition

Galleria Borghese, Rome
La Fornarina

Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome (in Italian)  
Double Portrait

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself

Los Angeles County Museum of Art   NEW!

Marche Region Museums, Italy
La Muta (The Silent One)

Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Italy

Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)  

Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
The Woman with the Veil, ca.1516

North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
St. Jerome Saving Sylvanus and Punishing the Heretic Sabinianus, 1502-03

Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)  

Philadelphia Museum of Art   NEW!

Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
Cardinal Aenes Sylvius Piccolomini Presents Eleanor of Portugal to Emperor Frederick III, ca.1502-03

Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna (in Italian)  
2 works online

Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Brescia, Italy (in Italian)  
Angel

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany
The Sistine Madonne, 1512/13

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)  

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)  
God Appearing to Isaac, Who is Asking for Rebecca's Pregnancy

State Museums of Florence, Italy
Portrait of Bindo Altoviti, ca.1512
Madonna dell'Impannata

State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy

Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"

Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)  
Click "Immagini" to see a large image from a 2004-2005 exhibition

Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands   NEW!
Works from the museum's drawings and engravings collection

The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)  

The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)  

Raphael at the The British Museum, London, UK

The Wallace Collection, London, UK   NEW!

The Walters Art Museum, Maryland   NEW!

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)

Virtual Uffizi
Saint John the Baptist in the Desert
Pope Julius II

Virtual Uffizi
6 paintings online

 
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:

Art Fund for UK Museums
7 works online when last checked

Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)  

 

Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)

Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)

 

Raphael
Paintings and Biography of Raphael

Google Art Project
Madonna of the Goldfinch (Uffizi Gallery, Florence)

Google Art Project
Portrait of Pope Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de' Medici and Luigi de' Rossi (Uffizi Gallery, Florence)

Google Art Project
Mary with the Child, John the Baptist and a Holy Boy (Madonna Terrranuova) (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)

Raphael at The Art Renewal Center

Raphael at The Artchive  

Raphael at The Athenaeum  
Numerous works online

Web Gallery of Art  

WebMuseum  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)

1200 Years of Italian Sculpture (mostly in Italian)  
The Drawings of Raffaello Sanzio

Aiwaz Panopticon
Many works online

Artliste
Image archive with zoomable images

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)

California State University WorldImages Database  

CGFA  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Humanities Web  

Mary Ann Sullivan's Digital Imaging Project  
Villa Farnesina Frescoes

Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)  
Highlights from the 2006 exhibition Raffaello: da Firenze a Roma

New York Public Library Digital Gallery

Olga's Gallery

PBase Photo Sharing
(Tip: Set the image size to "original" to see photos at their highest resolution)

RKD Netherlands Imagebase   NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions

State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site

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ArtWatch International
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Raphael's Portrait of Leo X with Cardinals, before and after restoration

Columbia University Visual Media Center
Exploration of Raphael's Stanza della Segnatura fresco at the Vatican

Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation

Mistica info (in Italian)  
Santa Caterina d'Alessandria

The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)

 

Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Raphael  
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting

RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History  

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

Artcyclopedia
"The Philosopher as Hero: Raphael's The School of Athens"

Artnet Magazine
Study of a Seated Female, Child's Head and Three Studies of a Baby, ca.1507-08

Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists
Biography of the artist. Detailed, but Vasari's anecdotes are sometimes inaccurate.

International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization)
"Raphael's Studio and Legacy," article by Roderick Conway Morris

International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization)
"Emotions Beneath the Paint," article by Souren Melikian

International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization)
"Raphael and his Madonna masterpiece," article by Souren Melikian

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Pope Julius II, 1511-12

The London Evening Standard
"Don't save this painting", 2003 article by Brian Sewell

"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon Look Inside Books: Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader.              Search Inside Books: Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon.   search inside Raphael search inside Drawings of Raphael look inside Mourning into Joy: Music, Raphael, and Saint Cecilia look inside Raphael's 'School of Athens' look inside Raphael look inside Raphael: The Stanza Della Segnatura look inside Masters of Art: Raphael look inside Raphael: The School of Athens look inside Raphael and His Circle: Drawings from Windsor Castle look inside Raphael: The Paintings