Raphael and the Madonna

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.

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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.

Contemporary artists:
Pietro Perugino
Pinturicchio
Sandro Botticelli
Andrea Mantegna
Andrea Della Robbia
Andrea della Robbia-Werkstatt
Vincenzo di Biaggio, known as Vincenzo Catena
Pesellino
Donatello
Piero del Pollaiuolo
Francesco Francia
Francesco di Stefano, called Pesellino
Jacopo di Antonio Negretti, called Jacopo Palma il Vecchio
Tiziano Vecellio, called Tizian
Lorenzo Lotto
Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn
Hugo van der Goesan
Parmigianino
Titian
Giovanni Bellini
Michelangelo
Anton Raphael Mengs
Giambologna
Hans Holbein the Younger
Battista an Dosso Dossi
Correggio

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Ed. Stephan Koja

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Contributions by S. Girometti, A. Henning, S. Koja, E.-B. Krems, V. Perlhefter, P. Stephan

152 pages, 99 colour illustrations
21 × 25.5 cm, hardcover

ISBN: 978-3-7774-3618-0

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