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The ''Madonna with Child, St. John and a Child Saint'' is an oil on wood
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 ...
by the Italian
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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 ...
, who executed it around 1504–1505. It is also known as ''Madonna Terranuova'' as it belonged to the Italian Dukes of Terranuova, from whom it went to Berlin's
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, where it has been since 1854.


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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 Nude art {{16C-painting-stub