Tag: seated

Ritratto del Cardinale Bibbiena (c.1516)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Ritratto del Cardinale Bibbiena (Portrait of Cardinal Bibbiena) c.1516 Oil on panel, 85 x 66.5 cm Galleria Palatina, Firenze Bernardo Dovizi (Bibbiena 1470– Rome 1520) was a scholar and a diplomat, as well as a friend and trusted private secretary…

Tommaso Inghirami (c.1510)

Raffaello (1483-1520) & Workshop Tommaso Inghirami c.1510 Oil on wood, 90 x 62.5 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Lost in thought, Inghirami gazes up and to the right. Raphael may have chosen this angle to diminish the impact of the sitter’s…

Madonna del Pesce (1513-1514)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna del Pesce (Madonna of the Fish) 1513–1514 Oil on panel, 215 x 158 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Seated on a throne, the Virgin holds the Christ Child in her lap. On the right, Saint Jerome dressed as…

Madonna d’Alba (c.1510)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna d’Alba (Alba Madonna) c.1510 Oil on panel transferred to canvas, diameter 94.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington After four years in Florence, Raphael moved to Rome in 1508, probably to execute more significant commissions under the papal…

Madonna Niccolini-Cowper (1508)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna Niccolini-Cowper (The Niccolini-Cowper Madonna) 1508 Oil on panel, 80.7 x 57.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Inscription: center right on border of Madonna’s bodice: MDVIII.R.V.PIN (1508 Raphael of Urbino painted it) A woman holds and looks toward…

Piccola Madonna Cowper (c.1505)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Piccola Madonna Cowper (Small Cowper Madonna) c.1505 Oil on panel, 59.5 x 44 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A woman and nude child, both with pale skin, sit in front of a deep landscape in this vertical painting.…

La Fornarina (c.1520)

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…

Ritratto di papa Giulio II (c.1512)

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…

Ritratto di papa Giulio II (1511)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Ritratto di papa Giulio II (Portrait of Pope Julius II) 1511 Oil on poplar, 108.7 x 81 cm National Gallery, London This portrait of Pope Julius II (1443–1513) is usually dated to the one-and-a-half-year period during which he wore…