Hermitage Pulls Raphael Painting from Major Retrospective at London’s National Gallery

As the war on Ukraine intensifies, international loans of artworks between several Russian and Western European institutions have been indefinitely suspended. The National Gallery in London has announced that one of the major loans for its anticipated Raphael exhibition, The Holy Family (ca. 1506–7), from St. Petersburg’s State Hermitage Museum, has been canceled.
“As a result of the situation that has arisen due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Raphael’s The H