The ''Solly Madonna'' by the
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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. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual a ...
was painted sometime between 1500 and 1504.
An early work, it clearly shows the influence of Raphael's teacher
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.
Ea ...
. Two motifs in this work would recur in later Madonnas by Raphael. The virgin Mary is reading a book, as in the ''
Madonna and Child
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'' in the
Norton Simon Museum
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, the ''
Conestabile Madonna'', the ''
Madonna Colonna'' and the ''
Madonna del cardellino''. As in that last painting a small bird, a
goldfinch, is part of the scene.
The painting is located in the
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
The Gemäldegalerie (, ''Painting Gallery'') is an art museum in Berlin, Germany, and the museum where the main selection of paintings belonging to the Berlin State Museums (''Staatliche Museen zu Berlin'') is displayed. It was first opened in ...
. It is called the ''Solly Madonna'' because it was owned by the British banker and art collector
Edward Solly (1776–1848).
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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1500s paintings
Paintings of the Madonna and Child by Raphael
Paintings in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
Birds in art
Books in art
Nude art
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