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Place of Origin: Italian
Tuscan Floral Still Life
By Russo
Located in Middletown, MD
Featuring a bouquet of roses and peonies in a rich color palette to complement various styles of décor. Incorporates nicely with Tuscan, shabby chic, or French country themes, accent...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Italian Neoclassical 3 Panel Hand Painted Room Divider Screen
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Three panel hand painted room dressing screen divider, Italy.
A 1800s Italian Neoclassical 3 panel floor screen, room divider. Hand painted on ...
Category
Late 19th Century Neoclassical Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Italian Renaissance-Style Oil Painting of a White Peacock & Other Birds in Frame
Located in New York, NY
Italian Renaissance-style (19th century) oil painting on canvas depicting a white peacock in a garden surrounded by other birds in an ornately carved giltwood frame.
Category
19th Century Renaissance Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Large Original Oil on Canvas, Painting of Italian Village, Italian School 1700s
Located in Round Top, TX
Large original oil on canvas painting of Italian village with mountains in background, 6' long (measured at frame).
Italian school circa 1700s.
Impressive in Size and detail this w...
Category
18th Century Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Grand Tour, Landscape of the Roman Countryside with Architecture and Characters
Located in Brescia, IT
Grand tour - Landscape of the Roman countryside with architecture and characters
Oil painting on canvas
Rome 18th century
Measurements: 27 x 33 - 43.5 x 50.5 cm (with frame)...
Category
1760s Rococo Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Orientalist Painting Depicting Concubines in the Harem by Fabio Fabbi
By Fabio Fabbi
Located in New York, NY
An exquisite orientalist painting depicting concubines in the harem by Fabio Fabbi
Artist: Fabio Fabbi (1861-1910)
Origin: Italian
Signature: signed F. Fabbi (upper right)
Medi...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Depero Fortunato Painting, Title: Horse and Stained Glass, Archive Certificate
By Fortunato Depero
Located in Milano, IT
Rare and beautiful painted work by Fortunato Depero from 1948, Title: Horse and Stained Glass Window. Technique: Indian ink and diluted Indian ink on paper. Details: Signature top le...
Category
1940s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Paintings
Materials
Paper
Painting, Venice, Serenissima, A.M. Rossi, Oil on Canvas, hand-painted, Italy
Located in Wien, AT
Large-format painting depicting a canal in Venice, signed A.M. Rossi, possibly attributable to Alberto Maria Rossi, an Italian artist who lived from 1879 to 1965.
The vertical format shows a beautiful perspective through an archway overlooking the canal. You can recognize a city view typical for Venice with buildings with chimneys, a bridge crossing the canal and the church towers that can be seen everywhere through the city of Venice, called the Serenissima.
The ships and boats...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Large Oil on Canvas, “Allegory of Devine Providence“ by Torres P
Located in Houston, TX
This large oil painting is unique in its oval shape and depicts The Allegory
Of Providence. The combination of color is especially pleasing in pale
Blue and rose hues. The frame is...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Paint
Mid-18th Century 'Allegory of Summer', Oil on Canvas
Located in Firenze, FI
Beautiful oil painting on canvas depicting the allegory of Summer.
Piedmontese school from the end of the 1700s, within a wooden frame and tablet carved with floral and vegetable mo...
Category
Mid-18th Century Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Late 19th Century Tempera on Paper Architectural Landscape
Located in Firenze, FI
Beautiful fantastic landscape with neoclassical architectural structures and classical monuments created with clear references to Florentine classicism: in fact, the sculpture of the...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paper
Pair of 20th Century Large Venetian Renaissance Revival Wood Panels
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Pair of 20th century large Venetian Renaissance revival wood panels.
Wood panels in hand painted Venetian Renaissance Revival Fresco work. The Sgraffito style motif is delicately ...
Category
20th Century Renaissance Revival Italian Paintings
Materials
Wood
Harvesting The Wheat, Oil on Canvas, Italian, 1950s
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
Wonderful painting of farmers bringing in the harvest of wheat
Oil on canvas. Unsigned. Artist unknown
Framed in a slightly distressed antiqu...
Category
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Paintings
Materials
Other
Antique Canvas Depicting 'The Preaching of St. Peter'
Located in Milano, IT
Beautiful framed wooden canvas from the end of the 19th century.
The reference narrative is the one found in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 2:14-42) in which Saint Peter starts pre...
Category
Early 1900s Romantic Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Architectural Capriccio of Roman Ancient Ruins with Figures
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Architectural Capriccio of Roman Ancient Ruins with Figures.
Italian, 18th century large painting in oil on canvas is from the school of Giovan...
Category
18th Century Other Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Antique Neoclassical Painting, 1780
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique Italian painting from the end of the 18th century. Neoclassical artwork, oil on canvas, depicting a Roman historical subject of good picto...
Category
Late 18th Century Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Hst Virgin before the Instruments of the Passion, Framed, 18th Century
Located in MARSEILLE, FR
Oil on framed oval canvas, presenting the Virgin seated near an angel looking at the instruments of the Passion of Christ or Arma Christi: c...
Category
18th Century Louis XV Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
18th Century, Esther and Ahasuerus Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Brescia, IT
Francesco Maria Raineri, known as Schivenoglia
(Schivenoglia, Mantua 1678-1758)
Esther and Ahasuerus
oil painting on canvas
Size: 52x137 cm
Work exhibited during the exhibition dedicated to the homonymous painter:
“Francesco Maria Raineri - Lo Schivenoglia 1676-1758, works from private collections”
and published in the catalogue, page 13.
Esther is the daughter of Abicàil of the tribe of...
Category
1710s Baroque Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Trompe L'oeil Hyperrealism Oil Painting Abstract Surrealist Photo Realist Art
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Trompe L'oeil Hyperrealism oil painting abstract surrealist photo realist art of early country living.
This charming vintage trompe l’oeil scene i...
Category
20th Century Country Italian Paintings
Materials
Wood
17th Century Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine Oli on Canvas Roman School
Located in Milan, IT
17th century, Roman School
Mystical marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Oil on canvas, 32 x 23 cm
Frame cm 45 x 36
The saint is depicted in front of the Virgin holding th...
Category
17th Century Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
18th Century Four Rural Scenes Painting Tempera on Paper
Located in Milan, IT
XVIII century Rural scenes
(4) Tempera on paper, 20 x 31 cm
With 18th century Venetian mirrored frame, 31 x 39 cm.
Category
18th Century Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Paper
Lithography by Italian Artist Gianni Dova, 1960s
Located in Milano, MI
Lithograph by Gianni Dova, created in the 1960s.
Measures: Ø cm 60 H cm 84
Gianni Dova (Rome, 8/01/1925 - Pisa, 14/10/1991) was an Italian painter. He was among the protagonists of the Spatialist Movement that grew up around the Galleria del Naviglio in Milan and he signed several posters including:
- the fourth (Manifesto of Space Art...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Paintings
Materials
Paper
Informal Oil painting on Metal, Italy, 1960s
Located in Lucca, IT
Oil painting on metal surface, around 1960. In Italy in this period new artistic current are developing the current known from the informal Art to Ar...
Category
1960s Brutalist Vintage Italian Paintings
Materials
Metal, Gold, Silver
Mariani Italian Fisherman in the Bay of Naples
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Vintage oil painting on canvas of fisherman in the bay of Naples.
Category
20th Century Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
20th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Signed Painting View of Venice, 1960
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Italian painting from the second half of the 20th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting a view of Venice in impressionist style of good pictorial quality. Artwork that develops vertically, of contained size, with wooden frame complete with fabric passe-partout (see photo). Painting signed lower left (see photo) A. Marangoni attributable to the painter Aldo Marangoni...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Italian Modern Colored Tempera Work of Art Painted Signed by G. Maffei, 1970s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian modern colored tempera work of art painted signed by G. Maffei, 1970s
Abstract painting in tempera, painted with thick brushstroke with various colors, with chromed steel fr...
Category
1970s Modern Vintage Italian Paintings
Materials
Steel
18th Century Italian Painting by the Painter Scipione Cignaroli
Located in Alba, IT
18th century Italian painting by the painter Scipione Cignaroli.
The valuable oil painting on canvas depicts a landscape of the Italian countryside with wayfarers on the banks of th...
Category
Mid-18th Century Other Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Late 18th Century, Bath of Venus, Tempera on Canvas
Located in Firenze, FI
Beautiful neoclassical tempera depiction on canvas of Venus bathing within a gilded and ivory lacquered wooden frame.
Tuscan manufacture, in good condition.
MEASURES: Work 56x42 ...
Category
Late 18th Century Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
Bronzo Ernesto Treccani Con Autentica, xx Secolo, Treccani, Certificato
By Ernesto Treccani
Located in Milano, MI
bronzo ernesto treccani con autentica - xx secolo - treccani - certificato
Descrizione :
bronzo Ernesto treccani su tavola
Origini :
Italia
Periodo di produzione :
XX...
Category
20th Century Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Framed Mixed Media Abstract on Paper #24 by Alessandra Chiffi
Located in Chicago, IL
A contemporary abstract mixed media painting on paper by Italian artist Alessandra Chiffi. This piece was professionally framed in a black wood frame with a white mat. Signed lower r...
Category
2010s Modern Italian Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper
Oil on Canvas of a White Cockatoo with Flowers in Gilt Frame, 19th Century
Located in Houston, TX
Large and impressive painting of still life of flowers with a white cockatoo
In an Italianate landscape with ancient columns and ruins in the backgroun...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Paint
Circle of Giovanni Paolo Panini 'Piacenza 1691-1765 Rome'
By Giovanni Paolo Panini
Located in SAINT-JEAN-CAP-FERRAT, FR
Circle of Giovanni Paolo Panini (Piacenza 1691-1765 Rome)
An architectural capriccio with an Apostle preaching
oil on canvas
Measures : 72 ¾ x 58 ½ in. (184.6 x 148.6 cm.)
Giov...
Category
18th Century Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
20th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Signed City View Landscape Painting, 1960
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Italian painting from the second half of the 20th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting a city view with characters in impressionist style of good pictorial quality. Painting that develops vertically, of contained size, with wooden frame complete with fabric passe-partout (see photo). Painting signed lower left (see photo) A. Marangoni attributable to the painter Aldo Marangoni...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Views of the Veneto Venetian School of the Xvll Century with Original Frames
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Views of the Veneto Venetian school of the XVll century with original frames.
Not relining.
Inventory labels on the rack.
Category
17th Century Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Paint
19th Century French Still Life Oil Painting in Gilt Frame Signed D. Giuseppe
Located in Dallas, TX
Invite a symphony of color into your home with this important antique still life oil on canvas painting. Painted in Italy circa 1880 and set in the original carved gilt frame, the composition depicts a tablescape adorned with a rich crimson tablecloths, decorated with a bowl filled with various fruits and squashes, with a vase on the right side overflowing with flowers. The artwork is signed in the lower right corner by Italian artist D. Giuseppe. The large colorful painting...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
Framed Mixed Media Abstract on Paper #8 by Giancarlo Mustich
Located in Chicago, IL
A contemporary abstract mixed media drawing on paper by Italian artist Giancarlo Mustich. This piece was professionally framed in a black wood frame ...
Category
2010s Modern Italian Paintings
Materials
Paper, Wood
Giuseppe Guidi Oil on Canvas Young Girl in White Dress, 1910
Located in Gardena, CA
Giuseppe guidi oil on canvas young girl in White Dress, 1910
The painting depicts a young girl in a wearing a white dress and headband leaning against a chair against a draped bac...
Category
20th Century Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
19th Century Oil Painting on Canvas Depicting a Female Figure
Located in Firenze, IT
Oil painting on canvas depicting a female figure, made by Auguste Toulmouche (Nantes 21 September 1829 - Paris 16 October 1890).
Toulmouche, attracted by the realist current, manag...
Category
19th Century Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Fausta Dossi Oil on Canvas Mixed Media "Il Mondo Piangett", circa 2007
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas by Fausta Dossi (B 1936)
This is an abstract oil painting on canvas created by Fausta Dossi, a renowned Italian artist from Milan, in 2007. The paint...
Category
Early 2000s Mid-Century Modern Italian Paintings
Materials
Cane
Framed Mixed Media Abstract on Paper #5 by Giancarlo Mustich
Located in Chicago, IL
A contemporary abstract mixed media drawing on paper by Italian artist Giancarlo Mustich. This piece was professionally framed in a black wood frame ...
Category
2010s Modern Italian Paintings
Materials
Paper, Wood
Resting Farmer Italian Figurative Painting by Bocassile, 1978 circa
Located in Milan, IT
Italian oil on canvas unfraimed painting featuring a resting farmer lying in the shade of a barn.
Signed lower left Boccasile by Giorgio Boccasile Italian p...
Category
1970s Expressionist Vintage Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Large Italian Gilt wood Frames
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
1-128 large Italian frames with elaborate cast detailing.
Overall size 40 x 34 x 1"
Inside rabbit 30 x 24"
Category
1940s Vintage Italian Paintings
Materials
Resin, Hardwood
19th Century Italian Oil Painting "Madonna of the Harpies" Aft Andrea Del Sarto
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a living room, library or study with this important antique painting. Created in Italy circa 1850, and set in the original carved gilt wood frame, the hand painted canvas titled "Madonna of the Harpies", depicts the Virgin Mary holding her Child, our Lord, Jesus Christ; She is flanked by Saint John the Evangelist, and either Saint Francis or Saint Bonaventure. The large religious painting...
Category
Mid-19th Century Neoclassical Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
Fausta Dossi Oil on Canvas "Eternita", circa 1995
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas by Fausta Dossi (B 1936)
Description
This is an abstract oil painting on canvas created by Fausta Dossi, a renowned Italian artist from Milan, in 20...
Category
1990s Mid-Century Modern Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Oil on Canvas Italian Street Market Scene by Giuseppe Pitto
By Giuseppe Pitto
Located in Chicago, IL
Giuseppe Pitto (Italian 1857 - 1928) is often known for his paintings depicting pretty women in Italian street markets. This exuberantly painted scene i...
Category
Late 19th Century Other Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Paint, Giltwood, Canvas
Antonio Travi Called Le Sestri, Seascape with Ruins, Genoa 17th Century
Located in Bruxelles, BE
Antonio Travi called Le Sestri (Sestri Ponente, 1608 - Genova 1665)
Seascape with ruins
Genova, First half of 17th century
Oil on canvas with his original 17th century frame
M...
Category
17th Century Baroque Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Large Postmodern Italian Painting by Donatella Lopresti
Located in Miami, FL
A large acrylic painting on canvas by Donatella Lopresti. Bold, colorful and full of life. unframed, a small discrete repair on lower left corner.
Category
1980s Vintage Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Monumental 18th Century Italian Oil Painting
Located in Atlanta, GA
A monumental 18th century Oil On Canvas Painting from Lucca, Italy. Delightful soft color and hues with handsome cracquelure. The painting will be the statement of its surrounding.
Category
18th Century Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Neopolitan School Oil Painting of Posillipo Napoli Naples Coastline
Located in New York, NY
Our scene on wooden panel depicts the coastline in the Posillipo area of Naples. Board measures 9 by 15 inches and the period frame, 13 3/4 by 20 inches. Signed indistinctly with tit...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Wood
Manner Titian, Oil on Canvas Sleeping Cupid
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Manner of Titian (Tiziano Vecelli - Italian, 1485-1576) An Oil on Canvas "Sleeping Cupid" within a gilt and black decorated gesso frame. A label on reve...
Category
17th Century Renaissance Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Giltwood
Still Life with Fruit Oil on Canvas, Isabella Lindner, 1930
Located in Albignasego, IT
Isabella Lindner – still life with fruit
Measures: 44cm x 58cm - unframed
65cm x 80cm - with frame
Oil on cardboard - 1930s
Composition with fruit, jug and vases on a table...
Category
1930s Art Deco Vintage Italian Paintings
Materials
Wood
Sacrificio a Minerva Monumentale Scena Mitologica Italiana della Fine 1600
Located in Milan, IT
Sacrificio a Minerva Monumentale Dipinto Antico con Scena Mitologica del 1600 dipinta ad olio su tela raffigurante una composizione animata da una moltitudine di personaggi. Il dipin...
Category
Late 17th Century Baroque Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
17th Century Angelica and Medoro Painted Oil on Canvas Roman School
Located in Milan, IT
Roman School, 17th century
Angelica and Medoro engrave their names on the bark of a tree
Oil on canvas, 65 x 48.5 cm
The canvas depicts one of the most famous episodes of O...
Category
17th Century Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
18th Century Italian Hand Painted on Alabaster and Framed Landscape Painting
Located in Marbella, ES
18th century Italian hand painted on Alabaster and framed landscape painting.
Category
18th Century Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Alabaster
Large Painted Oval Wooden Wall Panel from Florence, Italy
Located in Dallas, TX
Hand-painted in Florence, Italy, this fantastic oval wooden wall panel features a large urn with a scrolled handle. The urn is adorned with a fluted...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
17th Century Venetian Old Master Floral Still Life Oil Painting Flowers
Located in Bradenton, FL
A beautiful Italian Still Life oil painting on old canvas of an urn holding a bouquet of assorted flowers set on a ledge. 17th century....
Category
17th Century Baroque Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Paint
After Raffaello Sanzio 1483-1520 Raphael La Madonna della Seggiola Oil on Canvas
By (after) Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Fine Italian 19th Century Oil Painting on Canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520). The circular painted canvas depicting a seated Madonna holding an infant Jesus Christ next to a child Saint John the Baptist, all within a massive carved two-tone gilt wood, gilt-patinated and gesso frame, which is identical to the frame on Raphael's original artwork. This painting is a 19th Century copy of Raphael's Madonna della Seggiola painted in 1514 and currently exhibited and part of the permanent collection at the Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy. The bodies of the Virgin, Christ, and the boy Baptist fill the whole picture. The tender, natural looking embrace of the Mother and Child, and the harmonious grouping of the figures in the round, have made this one of Raphael's most popular Madonnas. The isolated chair leg is reminiscent of papal furniture, which has led to the assumption that Leo X himself commissioned the painting. Circa: 1890-1900.
Subject: Religious painting
Painting diameter: 28 inches (71.1 cm)
Frame height: 55 1/8 inches (140 cm)
Frame width: 46 inches (116.8 cm)
Frame depth: 5 1/8 inches (13 cm)
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italian, March 28 or April 6, 1483 - April 6, 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.
Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his death at 37, leaving a large body of work. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking.
After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael's more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models. His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (1504–1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates.
Raphael was born in the small but artistically significant central Italian city of Urbino in the Marche region, where his father Giovanni Santi was court painter to the Duke. The reputation of the court had been established by Federico III da Montefeltro, a highly successful condottiere who had been created Duke of Urbino by the Pope - Urbino formed part of the Papal States - and who died the year before Raphael was born. The emphasis of Federico's court was rather more literary than artistic, but Giovanni Santi was a poet of sorts as well as a painter, and had written a rhymed chronicle of the life of Federico, and both wrote the texts and produced the decor for masque-like court entertainments. His poem to Federico shows him as keen to show awareness of the most advanced North Italian painters, and Early Netherlandish artists as well. In the very small court of Urbino he was probably more integrated into the central circle of the ruling family than most court painters.
Federico was succeeded by his son Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, who married Elisabetta Gonzaga, daughter of the ruler of Mantua, the most brilliant of the smaller Italian courts for both music and the visual arts. Under them, the court continued as a centre for literary culture. Growing up in the circle of this small court gave Raphael the excellent manners and social skills stressed by Vasari. Court life in Urbino at just after this period was to become set as the model of the virtues of the Italian humanist court through Baldassare Castiglione's depiction of it in his classic work The Book of the Courtier, published in 1528. Castiglione moved to Urbino in 1504, when Raphael was no longer based there but frequently visited, and they became good friends. He became close to other regular visitors to the court: Pietro Bibbiena and Pietro Bembo, both later cardinals, were already becoming well known as writers, and would be in Rome during Raphael's period there. Raphael mixed easily in the highest circles throughout his life, one of the factors that tended to give a misleading impression of effortlessness to his career. He did not receive a full humanistic education however; it is unclear how easily he read Latin.
Early Life and Works
His mother Màgia died in 1491 when Raphael was eight, followed on August 1, 1494 by his father, who had already remarried. Raphael was thus orphaned at eleven; his formal guardian became his only paternal uncle Bartolomeo, a priest, who subsequently engaged in litigation with his stepmother. He probably continued to live with his stepmother when not staying as an apprentice with a master. He had already shown talent, according to Vasari, who says that Raphael had been "a great help to his father". A self-portrait drawing from his teenage years shows his precocity. His father's workshop continued and, probably together with his stepmother, Raphael evidently played a part in managing it from a very early age. In Urbino, he came into contact with the works of Paolo Uccello, previously the court painter (d. 1475), and Luca Signorelli, who until 1498 was based in nearby Città di Castello.
According to Vasari, his father placed him in the workshop of the Umbrian master Pietro Perugino as an apprentice "despite the tears of his mother". The evidence of an apprenticeship comes only from Vasari and another source, and has been disputed—eight was very early for an apprenticeship to begin. An alternative theory is that he received at least some training from Timoteo Viti, who acted as court painter in Urbino from 1495.Most modern historians agree that Raphael at least worked as an assistant to Perugino from around 1500; the influence of Perugino on Raphael's early work is very clear: "probably no other pupil of genius has ever absorbed so much of his master's teaching as Raphael did", according to Wölfflin. Vasari wrote that it was impossible to distinguish between their hands at this period, but many modern art historians claim to do better and detect his hand in specific areas of works by Perugino or his workshop. Apart from stylistic closeness, their techniques are very similar as well, for example having paint applied thickly, using an oil varnish medium, in shadows and darker garments, but very thinly on flesh areas. An excess of resin in the varnish often causes cracking of areas of paint in the works of both masters. The Perugino workshop was active in both Perugia and Florence, perhaps maintaining two permanent branches. Raphael is described as a "master", that is to say fully trained, in December 1500.
His first documented work was the Baronci altarpiece for the church of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino in Città di Castello, a town halfway between Perugia and Urbino. Evangelista da Pian di Meleto, who had worked for his father, was also named in the commission. It was commissioned in 1500 and finished in 1501; now only some cut sections and a preparatory drawing remain. In the following years he painted works for other churches there, including the Mond Crucifixion (about 1503) and the Brera Wedding of the Virgin (1504), and for Perugia, such as the Oddi Altarpiece. He very probably also visited Florence in this period. These are large works, some in fresco, where Raphael confidently marshals his compositions in the somewhat static style of Perugino. He also painted many small and exquisite cabinet paintings in these years, probably mostly for the connoisseurs in the Urbino court, like the Three Graces and St. Michael, and he began to paint Madonnas and portraits. In 1502 he went to Siena at the invitation of another pupil of Perugino, Pinturicchio, "being a friend of Raphael and knowing him to be a draughtsman of the highest quality" to help with the cartoons, and very likely the designs, for a fresco series in the Piccolomini Library in Siena Cathedral. He was evidently already much in demand even at this early stage in his career.
Influence of Florence
Raphael led a "nomadic" life, working in various centres in Northern Italy, but spent a good deal of time in Florence, perhaps from about 1504. Although there is traditional reference to a "Florentine period...
Category
Early 1900s Baroque Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
Italian Renaissance 16th Century Egg Tempera Fresco on Canvas, Adam and Eve
Located in Firenze, IT
This art piece is a Florentine Renaissance period fresco of late 1500 hand painted with egg tempera representing the temptation of Adam and Eve, this pivotal moment in the history of...
Category
16th Century Renaissance Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
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Used Kitchen Cabinets And Counters
Antique Small China Cabinet
Antique Dining Table With Claw Feet
Leather Covered Writing Table