The ''Resurrection of Christ'' (1499–1502), also called ''The Kinnaird Resurrection'' (after a former owner of the painting, Lord Kinnaird), is an oil painting on wood by the

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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 ...

. The work is one of the earliest known

painting Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and a ...

s by the artist, executed between 1499 and 1502. It is probably a piece of an unknown

predella In art a predella (plural predelle) is the lowest part of an altarpiece, sometimes forming a platform or step, and the painting or sculpture along it, at the bottom of an altarpiece, sometimes with a single much larger main scene above, but oft ...

, though it has been suggested that the painting could be one of the remaining works of the Baronci altarpiece, Raphael's first recorded commission (seriously damaged by an

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in 1789, fragments of which are today found in museums across

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).Longhi, 1955, pp. 83–87. The painting is now in the

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. The Kinnaird Resurrection is one of the first preserved works of Raphael in which his natural dramatic style of

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was already obvious, as opposed to the gentle poetic style of his master,

Pietro Perugino Pietro Perugino (, ; – 1523), born Pietro Vannucci, was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school, who developed some of the qualities that found classic expression in the High Renaissance. Raphael was his most famous pupil. E ...

. The extremely

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composition is ruled by a complex ideal

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which interlinks all the elements of the scene and gives it a strange animated

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, transforming the

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in the painting into co-protagonists in a unique "choreography". The painting possesses an esthetic influence from

Pinturicchio Pinturicchio, or Pintoricchio (, ; born Bernardino di Betto; 1454–1513), also known as Benetto di Biagio or Sordicchio, was an Italian painter during the Renaissance. He acquired his nickname (meaning "little painter") because of his sma ...

and Melozzo da Forlì, though the spatial orchestration of the work, with its tendency to movement, shows Raphael's knowledge of the Florentine artistic milieu of the 16th century.Barone & Marques, 1998, pp. 62–67. The work was acquired by the

in 1954.

Pietro Maria Bardi Pietro Maria Bardi (La Spezia, February 21, 1900 – São Paulo, October 10, 1999) was an Italian writer, curator and collector, mostly known for being the Founding Director of the São Paulo Museum of Art in Brazil. Bardi started his career i ...

, former director of the museum, on the recommendation of Mario Modestini, his associate at the Studio D'Arte Palma in Rome, took the responsibility of adding the '' Kinnaird Resurrection'' to the body of works of Raphael, based on the existence of two preparatory studies for the composition, starting a heated debate about its authorship. Nowadays, the reference to Raphael is almost unanimously accepted by experts. It is the only work by that artist currently in the Southern Hemisphere.Camesasca, 1956.

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