Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Madonna of the Chair
Alternate Title:
Madonna col Bambino e San Giovannino (Madonna della seggiola)
Image View:
Detail, Madonna with Christ Child and St. John the Baptist (right) (cropped frame)
Creator:
Raphael (Italian painter, 1483-1520)
Location:
repository: Palazzo Pitti (Florence, Tuscany, Italy) N. Inv. 151
Location Note:
Piazza Pitti, 1; Palatine Gallery
GPS:
43.76526 11.25029
Date:
ca. 1514 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance
Work Type 1:
tondo
Work Type 2:
panel painting
Classification:
painting
Material:
oil paint on panel
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
71 cm (diameter)
Description:
In Rome, Raphael painted fewer devotional works for domestic settings such as had played so important a part in his oeuvre in Florence. Raphael’s other great devotional painting of the type of the Alba Madonna, the Madonna della Sedia (c. 1514; Florence, Pitti), also a tondo, is completely different. It shows the richness of colour and surface typical of his portraiture of the same date and an intimacy, enhanced by the way forms seem to grow out of darkness and to press against and swell out of the picture plane. It embodies a more sensuous idea and a more organic compositional scheme, albeit one no less cunningly transgressive of anatomical and logical correctness. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-RS-PG-MDS-A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Madonna of the Chair