Raphael
Until 7 January 2018
Enjoy the art works of the exhibition in our Online Collection.
Raphael stands alongside Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo as one of art history’s most important masters. As a painter and architect, working in Florence and Rome and for popes and princes, Raphael was a true universal genius of the High Renaissance who constantly sought to strike a balance between naturalist imitation and idealization.
The Albertina is mounting the first exhibition to present works solely by Raphael in Austria. Around 130 drawing and 17 paintings serve to represent all of the artist’s important projects: from his early Umbrian period (up to 1504) to his years in Florence (1504/1505–1508) and on to his Roman period (1508/1509–1520), impressive works from all of his creative periods are included.
Numerous works from the museum’s own holdings as well as from renowned collections and museums afford a detailed impression of this High Renaissance master’s oeuvre. Raphael’s thought processes and modes of work, from design to final composition, are illustrated not only by masterful drawings but also by his paintings that simultaneously serve as an overview of the artist’s painted oeuvre.
An exhibition of The Albertina Museum, Vienna in cooperation with the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
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Raphael
The exhibition publication addresses Raphael’s thought processes and modes of work, from design to final composition, illustrated not only by masterful drawings but also by his paintings.
Ed. by Achim Gnann
2017
448 pages
30x24 cm | Hardcover
German EUR 15,00
English EUR 15,00
Raphael: Portrait of Bindo Altoviti, ca. 1514-1515
Oil on wood
(© National Gallery of Art, Washington)
Raphael: Apostle Head (Study for 'Transfiguration'), 1519 - 1520
Black chalk above traces of preliminary metal pencil drawing
(© The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Raphael: Study of head and hand, 1519-20
Black chalk
(Ashmolean Museum, Oxford © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford)
Raphael: The Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John (Esterházy Madonna), 1508
Oil on wood
(© Szépművészeti Múzeum / Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, 2017, Csanád Szesztay)
Raphael: Madonna dell’Impannata, 1511
Oil on wood
(© Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Uffizi, Florence: Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence)
Raphael: Self-Portrait, 1506
Oil on wood
(© Gallerie degli Uffizi Florenz, Gabinetto Fotografico delle Gallerie degli Uffizi)
Raphael: Two Studies of Male Nudes, 1515
Red chalk, metal pin
(© The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Raphael: Madonna studies, 1506–1507
Pen in brown and red chalk
(© The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Raphael: The Virgin with the Blue Diadem, 1511
Oil on wood
(Musée du Louvre, Paris: © Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Martine Beck-Coppola)
Raphael: Madonna with pomegranate, ca. 1504
Black-grey chalk
(© The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Raphael: Saint George, 1505
Oil on wood
(Musée du Louvre, Paris: © RMN-Grand Palais / Jean-Gilles Berizzi)
Raphael: The Virgin and Child (Madonna Colonna), 1508
Oil on poplar
(© Gemäldegalerie Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz)
Photo: Jörg P. Anders
Raphael: The Cumaean Sibyl (Study for the Sibyls fresco in Santa Maria della Pace, Rome), ca. 1511
Red chalk and pen marks above slate pencil drawing
(© The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Raphael: The Vision of Ezekiel, 1516-1517
Oil on wood
(© Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Uffizi, Florenz: Gabinetto Fotografico delle Gallerie degli Uffizi)
Raphael: Compositional study (Modello for the lower left side of the Disputa, Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican Museums, 1509
Brush, wash and white heightening over black chalk, squared in stylus
(© The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Raphael: The Massacre of the Innocent, ca. 1505–1510
Spolvero marks, black chalk, red chalk over a preliminary drawing in stylus
(The Royal Collection / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017)
Raphael: The marriage of Alexander and Roxane, ca. 1517
Red chalk above preliminary metal pencil drawing
(© The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Oil on wood (© National Gallery of Art, Washington)
Black chalk above traces of preliminary metal pencil drawing (© The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Black chalk (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford)
Oil on wood (© Szépművészeti Múzeum / Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, 2017, Csanád Szesztay)
Oil on wood (© Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Uffizi, Florence: Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence)
Oil on wood (© Gallerie degli Uffizi Florenz, Gabinetto Fotografico delle Gallerie degli Uffizi)
Red chalk, metal pin (© The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Pen in brown and red chalk (© The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Oil on wood (Musée du Louvre, Paris: © Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Martine Beck-Coppola)
Black-grey chalk (© The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Oil on wood (Musée du Louvre, Paris: © RMN-Grand Palais / Jean-Gilles Berizzi)
Oil on poplar (© Gemäldegalerie Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz)
Photo: Jörg P. Anders
Red chalk and pen marks above slate pencil drawing (© The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Oil on wood (© Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Uffizi, Florenz: Gabinetto Fotografico delle Gallerie degli Uffizi)
Brush, wash and white heightening over black chalk, squared in stylus (© The Albertina Museum, Vienna)
Spolvero marks, black chalk, red chalk over a preliminary drawing in stylus (The Royal Collection / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017)
Red chalk above preliminary metal pencil drawing (© The Albertina Museum, Vienna)