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Raphael at the National Gallery

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« on: July 16, 2007, 09:39:27 pm »

My friend Sarah has a connection to Raphael....she told me a great story of her past life, as a girl raised in a cloister...the illigitimate child of a priest and a nun.  The nuns commissioned Raphael to paint an alterpiece and the painter used the girl as the model for the Virgin Mary.  She became pregnant with his child and when he died she stood by his casket......   I found the following about the Colonna Alterpiece:

The Colonna Altarpiece was painted for a chapel of the Franciscan nuns of Sant'Antonio di Padova in Perugia. According to Italian biographer Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), the conservative cloistered community requested that the infant Jesus and young Saint John the Baptist be painted fully clothed. The seated majestic Madonna with her voluminous mantle, the Christ Child and His infant cousin are portrayed on a tiered and canopied throne in the middle of a meadow, flanked by four saints (Peter, Paul, Catherine of Alexandria and a female one still unidentified). In true Renaissance fashion, the figures are arranged in a sacra conversazione (sacred conversation). Suspended in time, all of them inhabit the same pictorial space but do not necessarily communicate with one another in this splendid example of devotional painting. Raphael's pyramidal organization of the main panel's three solidly modeled protagonists anticipates a number of the artist's later compositions that were inspired, in part, by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519).


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