Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE A: ITALIAN ART
Preferred Title:
Granduca Madonna
Alternate Title:
Madonna and Child
Image View:
Detail, upper figure of Mary and Child (without frame, with gray background)
Creator:
Raphael (Italian painter, 1483-1520)
Location:
repository: Palazzo Pitti (Florence, Tuscany, Italy) N. Inv. 178
Location Note:
Piazza Pitti, 1; Palatine Gallery
GPS:
43.76526 11.25029
Date:
1505-1506 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Renaissance
Work Type 1:
panel painting
Classification:
painting
Material:
oil paint on wood panel
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Measurements:
84.4 cm (height) x 55.9 cm (width)
Description:
Between 1504 and 1508, while in Florence, Raphael received important commissions for portraits and for domestic devotional paintings of the Virgin and Child (larger in format than such works generally were elsewhere in Italy). The Madonna del Granduca shows the influence of Leonardo. The simple composition is a prototype for the Madonnas of Raphael's last Florentine period. The figures of the Virgin and Child emerge from a dark background (an element evidently derived from Leonardo). The painting belonged to the 17th century Florentine painter, Carlo Dolci, and then to Grand Duke Ferdinand III of Lorraine from whom its name derives. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Adjunct Module A: Italian Art
Identifier:
7A1-RS-PG-TGN-A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Granduca Madonna