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Incoronazione della Vergine (1502-1504)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Incoronazione della Vergine, detta Pala Oddi (Crowning of the Virgin, called Oddi Altarpiece) 1502–1504 Tempera grassa on wood transferred to canvas, 272 x 165 cm Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vaticano The Crowning of the Virgin was painted for the altar of…

San Giorgio e il drago, Washington (c.1506)

Raffaello (1483-1520) San Giorgio e il drago (Saint George and the Dragon) c.1506 Oil on panel, 28.5 x 21.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Raphael was born in Urbino, a central Italian duchy noted for its elegant gentility and Renaissance scholarship.…

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…

Processione al Calvario (c.1504-1505)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Processione al Calvario (The Procession to Calvary) c.1504–1505 Oil on poplar, 24.4 x 85.5 cm National Gallery, London This is one of three scenes from the predella of Raphael’s Colonna Altarpiece, painted for the convent of S. Antonio da Padua…

Pietà (c.1503-1505)

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,…

Ritratto di Maddalena Doni (1505-1506)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Ritratto di Maddalena Doni (Portrait of Maddalena Doni) 1505–1506 Oil on panel, 65 x 45.8 cm Galleria Palatina, Firenze On the back there is a representation in monochrome of Deucalion and Pyrrha. Pair: Raffaello (1483-1520) Ritratto di Agnolo Doni 1505–1506 Galleria…

Ritratto di Agnolo Doni (1505-1506)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Ritratto di Agnolo Doni (Portrait of Agnolo Doni) 1505–1506 Oil on panel, 65 x 47.7 cm Galleria Palatina, Firenze On the back there is a representation in monochrome of the Deluge. Pair: Raffaello (1483-1520) Ritratto di Maddalena Doni 1505–1506…

Tondo Doni (1505-1506)

Michelangelo (1475-1564) Tondo Doni (The Holy Family) 1505–1506 Tempera grassa on wood, diameter 120 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Michelangelo painted this Holy Family for a Florentine merchant, Agnolo Doni, whose prestigious marriage to Maddalena Strozzi in 1504 took place in…