Connoisseurship—the close visual analysis of composition, style, and brushwork—has been pivotal in authenticating works by renowned artists like Raphael, a luminary of the High Renaissance.

The Royal Academy of Art’s (RA) exhibition Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence ... the starting gun for what we now term the “High Renaissance”, injecting that new “modern ...

commissioned or displayed at the high point of the Italian Renaissance – the year 1504. It was a moment when three of the ...