Painting #024 - Raphael

Raphael 

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino

(Italian, 1483-1520) 

(L) Conestabile Madonna

- Raphael

- tempera on canvas from wood (18 cm dia.) c.1502-04

- Hermitage Museum (Saint Petersburg)

In tondo form (circular painting)

 

(R) The Madonna del Granduca

- Raphael

- oil on wood (84 × 55 cm) 1505

- Palazzo Pitti (Florence)

The Sistine Madonna

- Raphael 

- oil on canvas (265 × 196 cm) 1512 

- Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Dresden)

  

Madonna, holding Christ Child and flanked by Saint Sixtus and Saint Barbara, stands on clouds before dozens of obscured cherubs (putti), while two distinctive winged cherubs rest on their elbows beneath her.

(L) Madonna with the Blue Diadem
- Raphael
- oil on wood (68 × 48 cm) 1512–18
- Louvre (Paris)

With Christ's cousin St John the Baptist by the side

 

(R) Madonna della seggiola

- Raphael

- oil on panel (71 cm dia.) c.1513-14

- Palazzo Pitti (Florence)

《椅中圣母》

"画中的玛利亚怀里抱着年幼的耶稣基督她脸上慈爱的神情洋溢着人性的温柔。

拉斐尔画的圣母比任何人画得都美，他也因此而名声大噪。

将近五十幅的圣母子画像为他博得了“圣母画家”这样的称号。"

Madonna del Prato

- Raphael 

- oil on board (113 × 88 cm) 1505

- Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna)

  

Raphael, a mortal god

 

The Alba Madonna

- Raphael 

- oil on wood, to canvas (95 cm dia., tondo) 1510  

- National Gallery of Art  (Washington, D.C.)

 

Mary, Jesus and John the Baptist are staring at a cross in a typical Italian countryside. 

(L) La belle jardinière

- Raphael

- oil on panel (122 x 80 cm) 1507-08

- Louvre (Paris)

 

(R) Madonna of the Goldfinch

- Raphael

- oil on wood (107 × 77 cm) c.1505-06

- Galleria degli Uffizi (Florence) 

(L) The Holy Family with a Lamb

- Raphael 

- oil on panel (32 x 22 cm) 1504 

- Museo del Prado (Madrid)

 

(R) Canigiani Holy Family

- Raphael

- oil on wood (131 × 107 cm) c.1507-08

- Alte Pinakothek (Munich)

Madonna with the Fish
- Raphael
- oil on board (113 × 88 cm) c.1512-14
- Museo del Prado (Madrid)

(L) Ansidei Madonna

- Raphael

- oil on wood (217 × 148 cm) 1505-07

- National Gallery (London)

 

(R) Madonna del Baldacchino

- Raphael, incomplete in his time

- oil on canvas, 276 x 224 cm) 1507-08

Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti, Florence)

(L) The Crowning of the Virgin (Oddi Altarpiece)

- Raphael

- oil on wood, to canvas (267 x 163 cm) 1502-04

- Vatican Pinacoteca (Vatican)

 

(R) Madonna of Foligno

- Raphael

- oil on wood, to canvas (320 × 194 cm) c.1511-12

- Pinacoteca Vaticana (Vatican)

The Transfiguration

- Raphael 

- tempera on wood (405 x 278 cm) 1516-20 

- Pinacoteca Vaticana (Vatican)

 

The last masterpiece before his premature death.

Saint Catherine of Alexandria
- Raphael
- oil on wood (72 × 56 cm) c.1507
- National Gallery (London)

Catherine of Alexandria (c.287-c.305, Roman Egyptian) is looking upward in ecstacy (religious passion) and leaning on the wheel of her martyrdom. She was preaching Christianity before she was executed by pagan emperor.

Source: Wikipedia