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St Catherine of Alexandria new21/RAFFAELLO Sanzio-492992.jpg Painting ID:: 63821 |
1508 Oil on wood, 71,1 x 54,6 cm National Gallery, London Half-way between a work of private devotion and a collector's piece, this picture was probably painted just before Raphael's move to Rome. Rather more evident than the influence of Perugino is that of Leonardo, who perfected the `serpentine' pose in which the body twists about its axis, lending movement, grace and three-dimensional presence even to static figures. Characteristically, Raphael justifies this unnatural position through a narrative device: Catherine turns her head upwards and to her right in ecstatic communion with the divine light descending in thin gold rays from the sky. St Catherine of Alexandria is portrayed in a marvellous, twisted pose. Her left arm is leaning on her attribute, the wheel, and her right hand is pressed to her breast while she gazes up at a sky flooded with light. The composition is as rich in harmonious movement as the coloration is full and varied. The landscape is painted with particular care. Its light shading indicates a residual influence of Leonardo, although the jagged mountains which often characterize Leonardo's landscapes are absent. The delicate modelling of the saint, the slight torsion of her body as she leans on the wheel of her martyrdom (whose spikes have been reduced to rounded knobs in order to tone down the element of cruelty) fully express the balanced character of Raphael's art. The panel clearly shows the intense formal research which underlies Raphael's figurative creations. He is always careful not to excite emotions which he considers too intense and to mitigate tones and thematic elements in search of a perfect balance between design, colour, pose and expression, and between the figurative and ornamental elements.Artist:RAFFAELLO Sanzio Title: St Catherine of Alexandria Painted in 1501-1550 , Italian - - painting : religious | |
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The School of Athens new21/RAFFAELLO Sanzio-959635.jpg Painting ID:: 63822 |
1509 Fresco Stanza della Segnatura, Palazzi Pontifici, Vatican Geometry is represented by Euclid, who is explaining to his pupils a geometric diagram he has drawn on a slate. It is thought that Raphael was here portraying the architect Bramante.Artist:RAFFAELLO Sanzio Title: The School of Athens (detail) Painted in 1501-1550 , Italian - - painting : religious | |
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The School of Athens new21/RAFFAELLO Sanzio-825689.jpg Painting ID:: 63823 |
1509 Fresco Stanza della Segnatura, Palazzi Pontifici, Vatican Pythagoras, representing Arithmetic, is sitting in the foreground. The two men who are jostling to look over his shoulder recall figures in Leonardo da Vinci's unfinished Adoration of the Magi in the Uffizi. Raphael had occasion to study Leonardo's picture during his stay in Florence.Artist:RAFFAELLO Sanzio Title: The School of Athens (detail) Painted in 1501-1550 , Italian - - painting : religious | |
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Raffaello Angelo 1 new23/RAFFAELLO Sanzio-396786.jpg Painting ID:: 67495 |
Title Italiano: Angelo Deutsch: Pala vom seligen Nikolaus von Tolentino, Detail: Engel English: Angel, fragment of the Baronci Altarpiece Year ? Technique Oil on panel Dimensions 31 X 27cm | |
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Madonna della Tenda new23/RAFFAELLO Sanzio-775693.jpg Painting ID:: 70241 |
Medium Oil on wood Dimensions 65,8 X 51,2 cm | |
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