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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…

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…

Madonna Terranuova (c.1505)

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…

Spasimo di Sicilia (1515-1516)

Raffaello (1483-1520) & Workshop Spasimo di Sicilia, Andata al Calvario (Christ Falling on the Way to Calvary) 1515–1516 Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 318 x 229 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid See also: Jacopo Basilio commissioned this painting for the Monastery…

Madonna in trono con santi (1504-1505)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna in trono con santi (Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints) c.1504–1505 Tempera and gold on wood, 169.5 x 168.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is the main panel of the Colonna Altarpiece (Pala Colonna). The Colonna…

L’orazione nell’Orto (1504-1505)

Raffaello (1483-1520) L’orazione nell’Orto (The Agony in the Garden) c.1504–1505 Oil on wood, 24.1 x 28.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This panel was originally part of the base (predella) of the Colonna Altarpiece (Pala Colonna). This panel was…

Crucifixión (c.1675)

Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban (1617-1682) Crucifixión (Crucifixion) c.1675 Oil on canvas, 50.8 x 33 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This oil sketch helped Murillo to prepare a large painting that is today in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. The artist’s…

Cristo crucificado (c.1632)

Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Cristo crucificado (Christ Crucified) c.1632 Oil on canvas, 248 x 169 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Stylistically, this work appears to have been made in the early 1630s -soon after the artist returned from Italy– and most authors…