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The Procession to Calvary (Raphael) [Wikidata] National Gallery, London, United Kingdom: Oil on panel 24,4 x 85,5 1504–1505 Madonna del Granduca: Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy: Oil on panel 84,4 x 55,9 1505: Ansidei Madonna: National Gallery, London, United Kingdom: Oil on panel 216,8 x 147,6 1505: Saint John the Baptist Preaching (Raphael ...
Giovanni Santi, Raphael's father; Christ supported by two angels, c. 1490. Raphael was born in the small but artistically significant central Italian city of Urbino in the Marches region, [8] where his father Giovanni Santi was court painter to the Duke.
The canvas was one of the last Madonnas painted by Raphael. Giorgio Vasari called it "a truly rare and extraordinary work". [1] The painting was moved to Dresden from 1754 and is well known for its influence in the German and Russian art scene. After World War II, it was relocated to Moscow for a decade before being returned to Germany.
The School of Athens (Italian: Scuola di Atene) is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael.It was painted between 1509 and 1511 as part of a commission by Pope Julius II to decorate the rooms now called the Stanze di Raffaello in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City.
Early on his life, Raphael’s drawing style was influenced by his father, Giovanni Santi, who also was a painter. Raphael used ink as well as chalk to create his drawings. He would use soft strokes to create lifelike images. Raphael’s drawings covered different subject, just most were related to religion or biblical depictions. [4]
On December 10, 1500, Raphael and Evangelista da Pian di Meleto, an older painter from the workshop of Raphael's father Giovanni Santi, received the commission to paint jointly a large altarpiece dedicated to Saint Nicholas of Tolentino, for the Baronci chapel in the Sant'Agostino Church in Città di Castello.
The Transfiguration is the last painting by the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael.Cardinal Giulio de Medici – who later became Pope Clement VII (in office: 1523–1534) – commissioned the work, conceived as an altarpiece for Narbonne Cathedral in France; Raphael worked on it in the years preceding his death in 1520. [1]
The work is one of the earliest known paintings by the artist, executed between 1499 and 1502. It is probably a piece of an unknown predella , though it has been suggested that the painting could be one of the remaining works of the Baronci Altarpiece , Raphael's first recorded commission (seriously damaged by an earthquake in 1789, fragments ...