which cannot be entirely explained by the headdress worn by the muse in the finished fresco. It may be the form of headgear worn by studio assistants to keep their hair back when they were required to pose. Raphael may have returned to a model in order to clarify the elegant turn of th...
When the Sistine Madonna arrived in Dresden in the 18th century it was the world's most expensive painting and soon became Raphael's best-known masterpiece. It stars Mary and the infant Christ floating above two saints, male and female. One is an early Pope, Sixtus II, who was canonized...
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Peter’s Basilica at the death of Donato Bramante, and took charge of virtually all the papacy’s projects in architecture, painting, and the preservation of antiquities. When he died on his 37th birthday, his last masterpiece, the Transfiguration altarpiece, was placed at the head of his ...
Sistine Madonna, oil painting created in 1513-14 by Raphael, master painter of the Italian High Renaissance. The painting was one of the artist’s final Madonnas. The putti at the bottom of the painting are one of the best-known images in the history of