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The Resurrection of Christ (1499–1502), also called The Kinnaird Resurrection (after a former owner of the painting, Lord Kinnaird), is an oil painting on wood by the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael. The work is one of the earliest known paintings by the artist, executed between 1499 and 1502.
The upper register of the painting includes, from left to right, James, Peter and John, [29] traditionally read as symbols of faith, hope and love; hence the symbolic colours of blue-yellow, green and red for their robes. [3] In the lower register, Raphael depicts the Apostles attempting to free the possessed boy of his demonic possession. They ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States: Oil and gold on panel 169,5 x 168,9 c. 1504 The Agony in the Garden [Wikidata] Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States: Oil on panel 24,1 x 28,9 Lamentation over the Dead Christ (Raphael) [Wikidata] Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, United States: Oil on panel 23,5 x 28,8 c ...
And in truth, whoever considers the diligence, love, art and grace shown by this picture, has great reason to marvel, for it amazes all who behold it, what with the air of the figures, the beauty of the draperies, and in short, the supreme excellence that it reveals in every part.
In the Catacombs of Rome, artists just hinted at the Resurrection by using images from the Old Testament such as the fiery furnace and Daniel in the Lion's Den. The period between the year 250 AD and the liberating Edict of Milan in 313 AD saw violent persecutions of Christians under Decius and Diocletian. The most numerous surviving examples ...
In the Mond Crucifixion, Raphael has used Perugino's technique of cross-hatched shadows, but also used his fingers to smear and soften the wet paint in places, leaving some detectable fingerprints. Vasari later famously commented that no one would have believed it was painted by Raphael rather than Perugino if he had not signed it.
The image depicts three of the Graces of classical mythology. It is frequently asserted that Raphael was inspired in his painting by a ruined Roman marble statue displayed in the Piccolomini Library of the Siena Cathedral—19th-century art historian [Dan K] held that it was a not very skillful copy of that original—but other inspiration is possible, as the subject was a popular one in Italy.
Portrait of a Cardinal, or simply The Cardinal, is an oil on panel painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael, dated to c. 1510–1511. It is held by the Prado Museum in Madrid. Raphael had arrived in Rome in 1508, and quickly found great success during the papacy of Pope Julius II.