Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART: Madonna of the Chair
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
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Preferred Title:
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Madonna of the Chair
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Alternate Title:
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Madonna col Bambino e San Giovannino (Madonna della seggiola)
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Image View:
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Detail, Madonna with Christ Child and St. John the Baptist (right) (cropped frame)
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Creator:
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Raphael (Italian painter, 1483-1520)
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Location:
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repository: Palazzo Pitti (Florence, Tuscany, Italy) N. Inv. 151
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Location Note:
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Piazza Pitti, 1; Palatine Gallery
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GPS:
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+43.76526+11.25029
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Date:
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ca. 1514 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Renaissance
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Work Type 1:
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tondo
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Work Type 2:
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panel painting
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Classification:
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painting
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Material:
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oil paint on panel
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Technique:
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oil painting (technique)
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Measurements:
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71 cm (diameter)
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Description:
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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.oxfordartonline.com/)
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Collection:
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Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
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Identifier:
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7A1-RS-PG-MDS-A02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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