Thursday, April 30, 2009

Raphael paintings - web museum, Parris

Madonna dell Granduca - Oil on wood, 84 x 55 cm

Maddalena


St. George Fighting the Dragon - Oil on wood, 28.5 x 21.5 cm

St. George Fighting the Dragon - Oil on wood, 30 x 26 cm

The small Cowper Madonna - Oil on wood, 59.5 x 44 cm

The nymph Galatea - Fresco, 295 x 225 cm

Bindo Altoviti - Oil on wood, 60 x 44 cm


Italian in full RAFFAELLO SANZIO , master painter was born in 1483, it was the largest and most successful in Urbino and architect of the Italian High Renaissance. Raphael is best known for his Madonnas and for his great figure compositions in the Vatican in Rome. His work is trendy for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur.
While we may term other working paintings, those of Raphael are living things; the flesh palpitate, the breath comes and goes, every organ lives, life pulsates everywhere.

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