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The ''Madonna dell'Impannata'' is an oil on panel (158x125 cm) painting by the Italian High Renaissance painter
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, executed ''c.'' 1513–1514. It has been preserved at the Palatine Gallery in
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History

Giorgio Vasari recorded that the painting was originally commissioned to Bindo Altoviti. It portraits a very old Saint Anne who is seated and holds out to the Virgin her son. There is a Saint John seated, nude, and behind Saint Anne another female saint. Bindo sent the Madonna dell'Impannata to his palace in Florence, where the picture remained until Duke Cosimo I de' Medici confiscated it for his own chapel, newly decorated by Raphael. During the Napoleonic occupation, the painting was brought to Paris in 1799, and then returned in 1815 .


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 ...


References

* Pierluigi De Vecchi, ''Raphael'', Rizzoli, Milan 1975. * Marco Chiarini, ''Palatine Gallery and Royal Apartments'', Syllables, Livorno 1998.


External links

* Paintings of the Madonna and Child by Raphael 1514 paintings Paintings in the collection of the Galleria Palatina Nude art Paintings of Elizabeth (biblical figure) Paintings of Saint Anne Paintings depicting John the Baptist {{16C-painting-stub