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Consegna delle chiavi del Regno (c.1515-1516)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Consegna delle chiavi del Regno (Christ’s Charge to Peter) c.1515–1516 Bodycolour over charcoal underdrawing on paper, mounted on canvas, 344 x 534 Victoria and Albert Museum, London Acquired by the Prince of Wales, future King Charles I in 1623…

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…

Le Tre Grazie (c.1504-1505)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Le Tre Grazie (The Three Graces) c.1504–1505 Oil on panel, 17 x 17 cm Musée Condé, Chantilly This is one of the smallest paintings by the master and the only secular work from Raphael‘s Florentine period, before 1508, still under…

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…

Resurrezione di Cristo (1499-1502)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Resurrezione di Cristo (Resurrection of Christ) 1499–1502 Oil on wood panel, 56.5 x 47 cm Museu de Arte, São Paulo Ever since he began his training in the workshop of Pietro Perugino (1446–1524), Raphael Sanzio circulated in the court…

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.…