The ''Oddi altarpiece'', or more correctly the degli Oddi altarpiece, is an altarpiece of the Coronation of the Virgin painted in 1502-1504 by the Italian Renaissance master

Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael (; or ; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual a ...

for the altar of the Oddi family chapel in the church of San Francesco al Prato in

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, Italy, now in the

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. The altarpiece was commissioned for the Oddi family chapel in San Francesco al Prato in Perugia, was taken to Paris in 1797 (for the

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) and in 1815 brought back to Italy, not to Perugia but to the Vatican Pinacoteca. The altarpiece was commissioned by Leandra Baglioni, widow of Simone degli Oddi; in Perugia there were different Oddi and degli Oddi families, but English sources often ignore this, including the English version of the

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The crowning of the Virgin

The actions of the painting occur in two related scenes, one in heaven and the other terrestrial. Above the coronation shows the Virgin being crowned by

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, while angels are playing music; while below the section depicts the apostles gathering around the empty tomb of

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, whose body was raised to heaven without corruption. St Thomas holds in his hands the girdle Mary dropped down to him as a testament to her

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. The saints raise their eyes to the heavenly spectacle.

The predella

The

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(39 × 190 cm) is composed of three 27 × 50 cm paintings, showing scenes of The Life of the Virgin:

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part of the predella at the Web Gallery of Art. * {{Raphael Paintings by Raphael 1500s paintings Paintings in the collection of the Vatican Museums

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Paintings depicting the Annunciation

The crowning of the Virgin

The predella

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