A 500-year-old mystery at the Vatican has just been solved. Two paintings by Renaissance master Raphael were discovered during the cleaning and restoration of a room inside the Vatican Museums.

A woman admires, from left, a black and white preparatory cartoon for the St. Peter painting, by Fra Bartolomeo, 1513, the oil on wood painting of St. Peter, by Raffaello, 1517-1518, the oil on wood ...

FILE - A visitor admires a Raphael Room inside the Vatican Museums at the Vatican, on May 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File) VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican Museums on Thursday unveiled ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican Museums on Thursday unveiled the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms, the spectacularly frescoed reception rooms of the Apostolic Palace that in some ...

VATICAN CITY — Two of the world’s most important art museums, the Vatican Museums and the Uffizi Galleries, joined forces for the first time on Friday to inaugurate a small exhibit of rarely seen ...

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican Museums on Thursday unveiled the last and most important of the restored Raphael Rooms, the spectacularly frescoed reception rooms of the Apostolic Palace that in some ways ...

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