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Nicola da Tolentino resuscita due colombe (c.1500)

Raffaello (1483-1520) & Circle of Perugino (c.1446-1523) Nicola da Tolentino resuscita due colombe (St Nicholas of Tolentino Restoring Two Partridges to Life) c.1500 Oil on panel, 29.2 x 54 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit This painting is probably a fragment of…

San Giorgio e il drago (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.…

Pala Colonna (1504-1505)

Raffaello (1483-1520) Pala Colonna (Colonna Altarpiece) c.1504–1505 Oil and gold on wood, 242 x 169.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Raphael painted this altarpiece around 1504/5 for the Franciscan convent of Sant’Antonio in Perugia. It hung in a part of…

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). Raphael painted this…

L’orazione nell’Orto (c.1504)

Raffaello (1483-1520) L’orazione nell’Orto (The Agony in the Garden) c.1504 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…

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 This panel was originally part of the base (predella) of the Colonna Altarpiece (Pala Colonna). Not satisfied with a single Raphael painting, Isabella Stewart Gardner…

Le mal du pays (c.1948)

Magritte, René (1898-1967) Le mal du pays (Homesickness) c.1948 Watercolor and gouache on paper, 45.5 x 35.1 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago © 2013 C. Herscovici, London / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Au seuil de la liberté (1937)

Magritte, René (1898-1967) Au seuil de la liberté (On the Threshold of Liberty) 1937 Oil on canvas, 238.8 cm × 185.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago © 2018 C. Herscovici, London / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York One of Surrealism’s…

La trahison des images (1929)

Magritte, René (1898-1967) La trahison des images (The Treachery of Images) 1929 Oil on canvas, 60.33 x 81.12 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles © René Magritte Estate/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris