Category: Works

Visitazione (c.1517)

Raffaello (1483-1520) & assistants Visitazione (Visitation) c.1517 Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 200 x 145 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid The Virgin Mary visits her cousin, Elisabeth, who is pregnant with Saint John, as told in the New Testament (Luke…

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…