Month: November 2013

Ritratto di Baldassarre Castiglione (1514-1515)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Ritratto di Baldassarre Castiglione (Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione) 1514–1515 Oil on canvas, 82 x 67 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Compare: Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione 1630 Courtauld Institute of Art, London     See also: • Castiglione, Baldassarre (1478-1529)

Pala Baronci (1500-1501)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Pala Baronci (Baronci Altarpiece) 1500–1501 The Baronci altarpiece was seriously damaged during an earthquake in 1789. The surviving fragments of the altarpiece are: Raffaello (1483-1520) Angelo, Pala Baronci 1500–1501 Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Brescia     Raffaello (1483-1520) Angelo che…

Nicola da Tolentino resuscita due colombe (c.1500)

Raffaello (1483-1520) & Circle of Perugino (c.1446-1523) Nicola da Tolentino resuscita due colombe (St Nicholas of Tolentino Restoring Two Partridges to Life) c.1500 Oil on panel, 29.2 x 54 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit This painting is probably a fragment of…

Eterno Padre e la Vergine (c.1501)

Raffaello (1483-1520) & Evangelista da Pian di Meleto Eterno Padre e la Vergine (God the Father and the Virgin) c.1501 Tempera on panel, 110 x 73 cm Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli This painting is a fragment of the Baronci Altarpiece, seriously damaged during an…

Angelo che tiene un filatterio (1500-1501)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Angelo che tiene un filatterio (Angel Holding a Phylactery) 1500–1501 Oil on poplar, 58 x 36 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris This painting is a fragment of the Baronci Altarpiece, seriously damaged during an earthquake in 1789. Pala del beato Nicola da…

Angelo, Pala Baronci (1500-1501)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Angelo, Pala Baronci (Angel, Baronci Altarpiece) 1500–1501 Oil on wood, 31 x 27 cm Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo, Brescia This painting is a fragment of the Baronci Altarpiece, seriously damaged during an earthquake in 1789. Pala del beato Nicola da Tolentino, o Pala…

San Sebastiano (c.1502-1503)

Raffaello (1483-1520) San Sebastiano (St. Sebastian) c.1502–1503 Tempera and oil on wood, 45.5 x 36.4 cm Accademia Carrara, Bergamo Originally from Urbino and initially active in Perugino‘s workshop, Raphael worked in Siena, perhaps as a collaborator of Pinturicchio, to then establish…

Il sogno del cavaliere (c.1504)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Il sogno del cavaliere (Vision of a Knight) c.1504 Oil on poplar, 17.1 x 17.3 cm National Gallery, London This painting was inspired by a passage in the Punica, an epic poem by Silius Italicus (AD 25–101) recounting the…

Le Tre Grazie (c.1504-1505)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Le Tre Grazie (The Three Graces) c.1504–1505 Oil on panel, 17 x 17 cm Musée Condé, Chantilly This is one of the smallest paintings by the master and the only secular work from Raphael‘s Florentine period, before 1508, still under…