The ''Madonna dell'Impannata'' is an oil on panel (158x125 cm) painting by the
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High Renaissance
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painter
Raphael
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), now generally known in English as Raphael ( , ), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. List of paintings by Raphael, His work is admired for its cl ...
, executed ''c.'' 1513–1514. It has been preserved at the
Palatine Gallery in
Florence
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History
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer who is best known for his work ''Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects'', considered the ideol ...
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 the 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 ...
References
* Pierluigi De Vecchi, ''Raphael'', Rizzoli, Milan 1975.
* Marco Chiarini, ''Palatine Gallery and Royal Apartments'', Syllables, Livorno 1998.
External links
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Paintings of the Madonna and Child by Raphael
1514 paintings
Paintings in the Galleria Palatina
Nude paintings of children
Paintings of Elizabeth (biblical figure)
Paintings of Saint Anne
Paintings of John the Baptist
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