RAPHAEL
Madonna dell Granduca
c.1505
Oil on wood
84 x 55 cm (33 x 21 1/2 in.)
Palazzo Pitti, Florence

"Raphael's greatest paintings seem so effortless that one does not
usually connect them with the idea of hard and relentless work. To
many he is simply the painter of sweet Madonnas which have become
so well known as hardly to be appreciated as paintings any more. For
Raphael's vision of the Holy Virgin has been adopted by subsequent
generations in the same way as Michelangelo's conception of God
the Father We see cheap reproductions of these works in humble
dwellings, and we are apt to conclude that paintings with such a
general appeal must surely be a little 'obvious.' In fact, their apparent
simplicity is the fruit of deep thought, careful planning and immense
artistic wisdom. A painting like Raphael's
'Madonna dell Granduca,' is truly 'classical' in the sense that it
has served countless generations as a standard of perfection in the same
way as the works of Pheidias and Praxiteles. It needs no explanation. In
this respect it is indeed 'obvious.' But, if we compare it with the countless
representations of the same theme which preceded it, we feel that they
have all been groping for the very simplicity that Raphael has attained.
We can see what Raphael did owe to the calm beauty of Perugino's
types, but what a difference there is between the rather empty regularity
of the master and the fullness of life in the pupil! The way the Virgin's
face is modeled and recedes into the shade, the way Raphael makes us
feel the volume of the body wrapped in the freely flowing mantle, the
firm and tender way in which she holds and supports the Christ Child -
all this contributes to the effect of perfect poise. We feel that to change
the group ever so slightly would upset the whole harmony. Yet there
is nothing strained or sophisticated in the composition. It looks as if
it could not be otherwise, and as if it had so existed from the beginning
of time."

RAPHAEL
The Holy Family of Francois I.
1518
Canvas transferred from wood
207 x 140 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

RAPHAEL
The Holy Family with a Lamb
1507
Oil on panel
29 x 21 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

RAPHAEL
St. Sebastian (probably with PERUGINO)
c.1500-01
Accademia Carrara, Bergamo

RAPHAEL
The School of Athens
1510-11
Fresco
Vatican, Stanza della Segnatura, Rome

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Raphael: Astronomy.jpg - Prime Mover (Astronomy) (ceiling panel). 1509-1511. Fresco. Vaticano, Stanza della Segnatura, Rome
Raphael: raphael1.jpg - St. Sebastian. 1502-1503. Oil on panel. Pinacoteca dell'Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, Italy.
Raphael: raphael2.jpg - Crucifixion. 1502-1503. Oil on panel. National Gallery, London, UK.
Raphael: raphael87.jpg - Solly Madonna. c.1502. Oil on panel. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
Raphael: raphael89.jpg - Madonna with the Christ Child Blessing and St. Jerome and St. Francis (Von der Ropp Madonna). c.1502. Oil on panel. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
Raphael: raphael14.jpg - Madonna and Child. c.1503. Oil on panel. Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, USA.
Raphael: raphael88.jpg - Diotalevi Madonna. c.1503. Oil on panel. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
Raphael: raphael3.jpg - Coronation of the Virgin. c.1503-1504. Oil on panel, transferred to canvas. Vaticano, Pinacoteca Apostolica Vaticano, Rome.
Raphael: raphael4.jpg - The Annunciation (from the predella of the Coronation of the Virgin). c.1503-1504. Oil on panel, transferred to canvas. Vaticano, Pinacoteca Apostolica Vaticano, Rome, Italy.
Raphael: raphael5.jpg - Adoration of the Magi (from the predella of the Coronation of the Virgin). c.1503-1504. Oil on panel, transferred to canvas. Vaticano, Pinacoteca Apostolica Vaticano, Rome, Italy.
Raphael: raphael6.jpg - Presentation in the Temple (from the predella of the Coronation of the Virgin). c.1503-1504. Oil on panel, transferred to canvas. Vaticano, Pinacoteca Apostolica Vaticano, Rome, Italy.
Raphael: raphael7.jpg - Marriage of the Virgin. 1504. Oil on panel. Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Italy.
Raphael: raphael8.jpg - St. George. c.1504. Oil on panel. Louvre, Paris, France.
Raphael: raphael9.jpg - St. Michael. c.1503-1504. Oil on panel. Louvre, Paris, France.
Raphael: raphael10.jpg - The Three Graces. c.1503-1504. Oil on panel. Conde Museum, Chantilly, France.
Raphael: raphael11.jpg - Allegory (The Knight's Dream). c.1503-1504. Oil on panel. National Gallery, London, UK.
Raphael: raphael20.jpg - Madonna Connestabile. c.1503-1504. Oil on panel, transferred to canvas. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Raphael: raphael13.jpg - Portrait of a Man with an Apple. c.1504. Oil on panel. Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.
Raphael: raphael96.jpg - Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints. 1504-1505. Tempera on wood. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
Raphael: raphael12.jpg - Ansidei Madonna. c.1505. Oil on panel. National Gallery, London, UK.
Raphael: raphael90.jpg - Terranuova Madonna. c.1505. Oil on panel. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
Raphael: raphael62.jpg - Portrait of a Man. 1503-1504. Oil on panel. Museo Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy.
Raphael: raphael63.jpg - Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn. 1505-1506. Oil on panel. Museo Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy.
Raphael: raphael15.jpg - St. George and the Dragon. c.1505-1506. Oil on panel. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA.
Raphael: raphael16.jpg - Portrait of Agnolo Doni. c.1506. Oil on panel. Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy.
Raphael: raphael17.jpg - Portrait of Maddalena Doni. c.1506. Oil on panel. Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy.
Raphael: raphael18.jpg - Portrait of a Pregnant Woman. c.1506. Oil on panel. Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy.
Raphael: raphael19.jpg - Madonna del Granduca. c.1505. Oil on panel. Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy.
Raphael: raphael93.jpg - The Small Cowper Madonna. c.1505. Oil on wood. The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA.
Raphael: raphael21.jpg - Madonna of the Meadow. 1505 or 1506. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
Raphael: raphael22.jpg - Madonna with the Goldfinch. c.1506. Oil on panel. Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.
Raphael: raphael97.jpg - Holy Family (The Virgin with the Beardless Joseph). 1506. Tempera and oil on canvas, transferred from panel. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Raphael: raphael23.jpg - La Belle Jardiniere. 1507 or 1508. Oil on panel. Louvre, Paris, France.
Raphael: raphael24.jpg - The Holy Family with a Lamb. 1507. Oil on panel. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain.
Raphael: raphael25.jpg - Canigiani Holy Family. c.1507. Oil on panel. Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany.
Raphael: raphael26.jpg - Entombment. 1507. Oil on panel. Museo Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy.
Raphael: raphael27.jpg - St. Catherine. c.1508. Oil on panel. National Gallery, London, UK.
Raphael: raphael91.jpg - Colonna Madonna. c.1508. Oil on panel. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemaldegalerie, Berlin, Germany.
Raphael: raphael28.jpg - Tempi Madonna. 1507-1508. Oil on panel. Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany.
Raphael: raphael29.jpg - Madonna with the Baldachino. 1507-1508. Oil on panel. Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy.
Raphael: raphael94.jpg - The Niccolini-Cowper Madonna. 1508. Oil on wood. The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA.
Raphael: raphael30.jpg - The School of Athens. 1509. Fresco. Vaticano, Stanza della Segnatura, Rome.
Raphael: raphael31.jpg - Disputa. 1510-1511. Fresco. Vaticano, Stanza della Segnatura, Rome.
Raphael: raphael32.jpg - Parnasus. c.1509-1510. Fresco. Vaticano, Stanza della Segnatura, Rome.
Raphael: raphael64.jpg - Adam and Eve (ceiling panel). 1509-1511. Fresco. Vaticano, Stanza della Segnatura, Rome.
Raphael: raphael65.jpg - Apollo and Marsyas (ceiling panel). 1509-1511. Fresco. Vaticano, Stanza della Segnatura, Rome.
Raphael: raphael66.jpg - The Judgment of Solomon (ceiling panel). 1509-1511. Fresco. Vaticano, Stanza della Segnatura, Rome.
Raphael: raphael67.jpg - Prime Mover (Astronomy) (ceiling panel). 1509-1511. Fresco. Vaticano, Stanza della Segnatura, Rome.
Raphael: raphael68.jpg - Philosophy (ceiling tondo). 1509-1511. Fresco. Vaticano, Stanza della Segnatura, Rome.
Raphael: raphael69.jpg - Poetry (ceiling tondo). 1509-1511. Fresco. Vaticano, Stanza della Segnatura, Rome.
Raphael: raphael70.jpg - Theology (ceiling tondo). 1509-1511. Fresco. Vaticano, Stanza della Segnatura, Rome.
Raphael: raphael71.jpg - Justice (ceiling tondo). 1509-1511. Fresco. Vaticano, Stanza della Segnatura, Rome.
Raphael: raphael72.jpg - The Virtues. 1511. Fresco. Vaticano, Stanza della Segnatura, Rome.
Raphael: raphael73.jpg - Justinian Presenting the Pandects to Trebonianus. 1511. Fresco. Vaticano, Stanza della Segnatura, Rome.
Raphael: raphael74.jpg - Gregory IX Approving the Decretals. 1511. Fresco. Vaticano, Stanza della Segnatura, Rome.
Raphael: raphael33.jpg - The Triumph of Galatea. c.1511. Fresco. Villa della Farnesina, Rome, Italy.
Raphael: raphael34.jpg - Portrait of a Cardinal. 1510-1511. Oil on panel. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain.
Raphael: raphael35.jpg - Portrait of Tommaso Inghirami. c.1511. Oil on panel. Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy.
Raphael: raphael36.jpg - Portrait of Pope Julius II. c.1512. Oil on panel. National Gallery, London, UK.
Raphael: raphael37.jpg - The Expulsion of Heliodorus. c.1512. Fresco. Vaticano, Stanza di Eliodoro, Rome.
Raphael: raphael38.jpg - The Mass at Bolsena. 1512. Fresco. Vaticano, Stanza di Eliodoro, Rome.
Raphael: raphael39.jpg - The Freeing of St. Peter. 1514. Fresco. Vaticano, Stanza di Eliodoro, Rome.
Raphael: raphael40.jpg - Madonna Alba. 1511-1513. Oil on panel, transferred to canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA.
Raphael: raphael41.jpg - Madonna della Tenda. c.1512-1514. Oil on panel. Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany.
Raphael: raphael42.jpg - Madonna della Sedia. 1512-1514. Oil on panel. Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy.
Raphael: raphael43.jpg - Madonna di Foligno. c.1511-1512. Oil on panel. Vaticano, Pinacoteca Apostolica Vaticano, Rome.
Raphael: raphael44.jpg - Sistine Madonna. c.1513-1514. Oil on panel. Dresden Gallery, Dresden, Germany.
Raphael: raphael92.jpg - The Madonna of the Fish. c.1513. Oil on canvas. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain.
Raphael: raphael45.jpg - St. Cecilia with Saints. c.1514-1516. Oil on panel, transferred to canvas. Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna, Italy.
Raphael: raphael83.jpg - Madonna of the Cloth. c.1514. Oil on panel. Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy.
Raphael: raphael77.jpg - The Sibyls. 1511-1513. Fresco. Saint'Agostino, Rome, Italy.
Raphael: raphael76.jpg - Portrait of Cardinal Bernardo Dovizi Bibbiena. c.1514-1516. Oil on canvas. Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy.
Raphael: raphael46.jpg - The Burning of the Borgo. 1514. Fresco. Vaticano, Stanza dell'Incendio, Rome.
Raphael: raphael47.jpg - The Battle of Ostia. 1514-1515. Fresco. Vaticano, Stanza dell'Incendio, Rome.
Raphael: raphael48.jpg - The Coronation of Charlemagne. c 1516-1517. Fresco. Vaticano, Stanza dell'Incendio, Rome.
Raphael: raphael78.jpg - St. John the Baptist. c.1516. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France.
Raphael: raphael49.jpg - The Boy Baptist in the Desert. c.1517. Oil on canvas. Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.
Raphael: raphael50.jpg - St. Michael and Satan. 1518. Oil on canvas. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain.
Raphael: raphael84.jpg - Ezekiel's Vision. c.1518. Oil on panel. Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy.
Raphael: raphael51.jpg - The Hill of Calvary. c.1515. Oil on canvas. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain.
Raphael: raphael95.jpg - Portrait of Bindo Altoviti. c.1515. Oil on wood. The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA.
Raphael: raphael52.jpg - Cartoon for St. Paul Preaching in Athens. c1513-1514. Mixed media on paper, mounted on canvas. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.
Raphael: raphael75.jpg - Cartoon for The Miraculous Draught of Fishes. c.1513-1514. Mixed media on paper, mounted on canvas. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.
Raphael: raphael53.jpg - The Holy Family. 1518. Oil on panel, transferred to canvas. Louvre, Paris, France.
Raphael: raphael79.jpg - The Virgin with the Veil. Oil on panel. Louvre, Paris, France.
Raphael: raphael80.jpg - The Holy Family, known as Little Holy Family. Oil on panel. Louvre, Paris, France.
Raphael: raphael54.jpg - Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione. c.1514-1516. Oil on canvas, mounted on panel. Louvre, Paris, France.
Raphael: raphael55.jpg - La Donna Velata. c.1514-1516. Oil on canvas. Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy.
Raphael: raphael56.jpg - Double Portrait of Andrea Navagero and Agostino Beazzano. c.1516. Oil on canvas. Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome, Italy.
Raphael: raphael57.jpg - Self-Portrait with a Friend. 1517-1519. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France.
Raphael: raphael58.jpg - La Fornarina. c.1518-1519. Oil on panel. Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome, Italy.
Raphael: raphael59.jpg - Portrait of Pope Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de' Medici and Luigi de' Rossi. 1513-1519. Oil on panel. Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy.
Raphael: raphael60.jpg - The Judgement of Solomon. c.1518-1519. Fresco. Vaticano, Loggia on the Second Floor, Rome.
Raphael: raphael61.jpg - The Transfiguration. c.1519-1520. Oil on panel. Vaticano, Pinacoteca Apostolica Vaticano, Rome.
Raphael: raphael81.jpg - Portrait of Guidubaldo da Montefeltro. Oil on panel. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy.
Raphael: raphael82.jpg - Portrait of Elisabetta Gonzaga. Oil on panel. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy.
Raphael: raphael85.jpg - Portrait of a Young Man. Oil on wood. Szepmuveseti Muzeum, Budapest, Hungary.
Raphael: raphael86.jpg - Madonna Estergazi. Oil on wood. Szepmuveseti Muzeum, Budapest, Hungary.