Madonna dell'Impannata

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Madonna dell'Impannata
Madonna Impannata.jpg
ArtistRaphael and Workshop
Yearc. 1513–1514
Mediumoil on wood
Dimensions158 cm × 125 cm (62 in × 49 in)
LocationPalazzo Pitti, Florence

The Madonna dell'Impannata is an oil on panel (158x125 cm) painting by the Italian High Renaissance painter Raphael, executed c. 1513-1514. It has been preserved at the Palatine Gallery in Florence.

History[]

Giorgio Vasari recorded that the painting was originally commissioned to Bindo Altoviti.

It portraits a very old Saint Anne who is seated and holds out to the Virgin her son. There is a Saint John seated, nude, and behind Saint Anne another female saint.

Bindo sent the Madonna dell'Impannata to his palace in Florence, where the picture remained until Duke Cosimo I de' Medici confiscated it for his own chapel, newly decorated by Raphael.[1]

During the Napoleonic occupation, the painting was brought to Paris in 1799, and then returned in 1815 .

References[]

  1. ^ David Alan Brown, Jane Van Nimmen (2005). Raphael and the Beautiful Banker. Yale University Press. p. 14.
  • Pierluigi De Vecchi, Raphael, Rizzoli, Milan 1975.
  • Marco Chiarini, Palatine Gallery and Royal Apartments, Syllables, Livorno 1998. ISBN 978-88-86392-48-8
Retrieved from ""