Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) / altarpiece / ca. 1504

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)
altarpiece
ca. 1504
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Creator Name: Raphael
Creator Nationality: European; Southern European; Italian
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: Italian, Marchigian, 1483-1520
Creator Name-CRT: Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)
Title: altarpiece
Title Type: Object name
Title: Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1502
Creation End Date: 1506
Creation Date: ca. 1504
Object Type: Paintings
Materials and Techniques: tempera and gold on wood
Dimensions: Main panel, overall 67 7/8 x 67 7/8 in. (172.4 x 172.4 cm), painted surface 66 3/4 x 66 1/2 in. (169.5 x 168.9 cm); lunette, overall 29 1/2 x 70 7/8 in. (74.9 x 180 cm), painted surface 25 1/2 x 67 1/2 in. (64.8 x 171.5 cm)
AMICA Contributor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: New York, New York, USA
ID Number: 16.30ab
Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1916
Rights: http://www.metmuseum.org/
Context:

This important early altarpiece by Raphael was painted for the small Franciscan convent of Sant'Antonio in Perugia and hung in a part of the church reserved for nuns. According to Vasari, it was the nuns who asked Raphael to depict the Christ Child and infant Saint John the Baptist fully clothed. Their patronage may also account for the painting's conservative style and the emphasis given to gold decoration.

Raphael perhaps began the altarpiece in Perugia in 1504 and completed it following a trip to Florence, where he studied the work of Fra Bartolomeo. The lunette retains the purity of Raphael's early, Peruginesque style, while the boldly modeled male saints anticipate his Florentine commissions. The altarpiece remained in situ until 1678, when it entered the Colonna collection in Rome. By 1663, however, the predella had been sold to Queen Christina of Sweden. One panel from the predella is now in the Museum's collection (32.130.1).

The frame, readapted and heavily repainted, is of the period but not original to the altarpiece. The azurite blue of the Virgin's mantle has darkened and the haloes have been regilt.

AMICA ID: MMA_.16.30ab
AMICA Library Year: 2000
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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