RAPHAEL
• Trained in Umbria by Perugino (Christ Delivering the Keys the
Kingdom to Saint Peter)
• Famous for paintings of the Madonna and Child
• Young master moved to Rome; influenced by Bramante
• Absorbed elements of the work of Leonardo and Michelangelo
to create his own unique style
• Talented, popular, and beloved artist who died young (entombed
in the Pantheon)
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Piero della Francesca, Portrait of Federico da Montefeltro and
Batista Sforza, 1465 – 1466, Uffizi Gallery, Florence
Figure 22-7 RAPHAEL, Marriage of the
Virgin, from the Chapel of Saint Joseph
in San Francesco, Città di Castello, Italy,
1504. Oil on wood, 5’ 7” x 3’ 10 1/2”.
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan.
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Observe similarities between this
work and the work of Perugino.
Pietro Perugino, Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter, Fresco, 1481 – 1482, Sistine
Chapel, Rome
Bramante, Tempietto,
San Peitro in Montorio,
Rome, Italy, 1502(?)
Raphael is famous for his
portrayals of the
Madonna and Child
Raphael –
Madonna of
the
Granducca
Figure 22-8 RAPHAEL, Madonna in the Meadow,
1505. 1505–1506. Oil on wood, 3’ 8 1/2” x 2’ 10
1/4”. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
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Raphael, Sistine Madonna,1512 –
1513, Oil
La Donna Velata (The
Woman in the Veil), 1514 –
1516, Oil on canvas
La Fornarina
Figure 22-9 RAPHAEL, Philosophy (School of Athens), Stanza della
Segnatura, Vatican Palace, Rome, Italy, 1509–1511. Fresco, 19’ x 27’. 25
Plato and Aristotle
Diogenes
Heraclitus
Euclid
Ptolemy & Zoroaster
Pythagoras
Epicurus
Alexander the Great
listening to Socrates
Apollo
Grisaille
Self Portrait:
Mantegna
Uccello: Sir John Hawkswood (grisaille)
Pope Julius II, oil on
wood, 1511 - 1512
Figure 22-11 RAPHAEL, Baldassare
Castiglione, ca. 1514. Oil on canvas, 2’ 6
1/4” x 2’ 2 1/2”. Louvre, Paris.
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Figure 22-10 RAPHAEL, Galatea, Sala di
Galatea, Villa Farnesina, Rome, Italy, 1513.
Fresco, 9’ 8” x 7’ 5”.
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Galatea
Transfiguration
