The ''Madonna Colonna'' is an oil on poplar
painting
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by the
Italian Renaissance
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artist
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. List of works by Raphael, His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of ...
. It was painted ''c.'' 1507–1508, near the end of Raphael's
Florentine period.
This painting is part of the collection of the
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin,
and should not be confused with the
Colonna Altarpiece
The ''Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints'' (Young Baptist and Saints Peter, Catherine, Lucy, and Paul), also known as the ''Colonna Altarpiece'', is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Raphael, executed ''c.'' 1503-1505. It is ...
by the same artist, which is at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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in
New York
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See also
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List of paintings by Raphael
The following is a list of paintings by Italian Renaissance painter Raphael. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. He was enormously prolific, despite his early death at ...
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1508 paintings
Paintings of the Madonna and Child by Raphael
Paintings in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
Nude art
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