Raphael and the Madonna / editors, Stefania Girometti, Helen Kohn, Iris Yvonne Wagner ; translations from the German, Büro Lance Anderson, Andrew Horsfield, Russell Stockman.

Contributor Raphael, 1483-1520 Works. Selections.

ImprintMunich : Hirmer, [2020]

Imprint2020

Description152 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm

Note:At head of title: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.

Note:"Una pittura, rara, singolare, di Raffael d'Urbino" / Stephan Koja -- Raphael the Madonna painter / Andreas Henning -- The ambition of a young painter: Raphael's Madonna and Child with Book in the context of his early work / Eva-Bettina Krems -- Sandro Botticelli, The Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist -- Andrea Mantegna, The Holy Family -- Sandro Botticelli, Virgin and Child with Angels -- After Andrea Della Robbia, Virgin and Child -- Vincenzo Catena, Virgin and Child with Saint Peter and Saint Helena -- "Divinely painted": on the origins and meaning of the Madonna and child in Italian painting of the fifteenth century / Stefania Girometti -- Pesellino, The Virgin and Child Enthroned -- Francesco Francia and workshop, Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist -- Jacopo Palma il Vecchio, The Virgin with the Child, Saint John the Baptist and Saint Catherine -- Titian, Virgin and Child with Four Saints -- Lorenzo Lotto, Virgin and Child with the Infant John the Baptist -- In the face of death: the significance of the Sistine Madonna as an altarpiece / Peter Stephan -- After Donatello, Crucifix -- The startled Christ child in the Sistine Madonna: Raphael's response to an idea of Michelangelo's / Claudia Kryza-Gersch -- In search of a genuine Raphael "a qualunque costo" / Stephan Koja -- "...a mortal god...": the life of Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino / Verena Perlhefter.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-151).

Note:In the art of the Italian Renaissance, the subject of the Madonna with Child was chosen for pictures more frequently than any other. Raphael's paintings are regarded as some of the most innovative compositions to this day, 500 years after his death. Their groundbreaking significance is illuminated in this volume through comparisons with other principal works of the period, including those by Botticelli and Mantegna. Raphael's Sixtine Madonna is one of the most famous paintings in art history. The book traces how the artist arrived at this pioneering composition as well as the theological statement behind the picture and the original solutions that he found in his early Madonna paintings. Comparisons with Raphael's contemporaries in Bologna, Florence, Mantua and Venice show clearly the preferred picture types of the era as well as Raphael's highly individual pictorial language. Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany (27.11.2020 - 07.03.2021).

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