Raphael to visit Moscow

The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg and the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in MoscowRussias major repositories of Western artare strengthening ties with their Italian peers. An exhibition of work by the Renaissance master Raphael is due to open on 13 September at the Pushkin (until 11 December) as a result of a co-operation agreement signed this summer with the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Many of the works in the show, including Raphaels Self-portrait (1506), have never before been sh