Raffaello (1483-1520)
Pala Colonna (Colonna Altarpiece)
c.1504–1505
Oil and gold on wood, 242 x 169.5 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Raphael painted this altarpiece around 1504/5 for the Franciscan convent of Sant’Antonio in Perugia. It hung in a part of the church reserved for the nuns, who may have insisted on its conservative details, such as the elaborately clothed Christ. By contrast, the weighty male saints reflect the progressive style developed by Leonardo da Vinci and Fra Bartolomeo that Raphael had just begun to study in Florence. The lunette above the main panel depicts God the Father holding a globe and delivering a blessing between two angels and two seraphim. (MET)
Main panel:
Raffaello (1483-1520)
Madonna in trono con santi
c.1504–1505
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Predella:
Raffaello (1483-1520)
San Francesco d’Assisi
c.1504–1505
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
Raffaello (1483-1520)
L’orazione nell’Orto
c.1504–1505
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Raffaello (1483-1520)
Processione al Calvario
c.1504–1505
National Gallery, London
Raffaello (1483-1520)
Pietà
c.1504–1505
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Raffaello (1483-1520)
Sant’Antonio da Padova
c.1504–1505
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London