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…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna Terrranuova (Mary with the Child, John the Baptist and a Holy Boy) c.1505 Oil on poplar wood, diameter 88.7 cm Gemäldegalerie, Berlin SIGNATURE / INSCRIPTION: Ribbon (EC)CE AGNIVS (DE) Of the five paintings of the Virgin Mary by…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna Sistina (Sistine Madonna) 1512–1513 Oil on canvas, 265.5 x 201 cm Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden Raphael originally created the Sistine Madonna on behalf of Pope Julius II for the high altar of the monastery church of San Sisto…
Raffaello (1483-1520) La Velata (Woman with a Veil) c.1512–1515 Oil on canvas, 82 x 60.5 cm Galleria Palatina, Firenze The veil over the hair, from which the name of this splendid work by Raphael is derived, indicates that the woman is…
Raffaello (1483-1520) La Fornarina (Portrait of a Young Woman) c.1520 Oil on panel, 87 x 63 cm Palazzo Barberini, Roma The subject of this portrait, according to tradition, was Raphael’s inspirational muse and mistress: Margherita Luti, the daughter of a baker in…
Raffaello (1483-1520) & Workshop Ritratto di papa Giulio II (Portrait of Pope Julius II) c.1512 Tempera on panel, 107 x 80 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Giuliano della Rovere (Albissola, Savona 1443- Rome 1513) was pope from 1503 to 1513 under…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Pietà c.1503–1505 Oil on poplar panel, 23.6 x 28.8 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Not satisfied with a single Raphael painting, Isabella Stewart Gardner waited just two years before purchasing her second work by the artist. This small panel,…
Raffaello (1483-1520) San Francesco d’Assisi (Saint Francis of Assisi) c.1502 Oil on panel, 25.8 x 16.8 cm Dulwich Picture Gallery, London This panel was originally part of the base (predella) of the Colonna Altarpiece (Pala Colonna). Saint Francis of Assisi (c.…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Sant’Antonio da Padova (Saint Anthony of Padua) c.1502 Oil on panel, 25.7 x 16.4 cm Dulwich Picture Gallery, London This panel was originally part of the base (predella) of the Colonna Altarpiece (Pala Colonna). Saint Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) was…
Raffaello (1483-1520) La Belle Jardinière (Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist) c.1507–1508 Oil on panel, 122 x 80 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris