Raphael

Raphael, Portraits of Angelo Doni and Maddalena Strozzi Doni, (1506)

• compare/contrast to L’s Mona Lisa

Raphael, La Belle Jardinière, (1507)

• compare/contrast with L’s St. Anne

Raphael, Entombment, (1507)

• demonstrates his study of M’s Doni Tondo and Pietá

  • twisting and angled bodies

  • DT: woman kneeling to catch Mary is in the same pose as M’s virgin (knees forward, body twisted, weight supporting another body)

  • P: loose, graceful, bent legs of Jesus

Raphael, Portrait of Pope Julius II, (1511)

Raphael, School of Athens, (1508-1511)

• wet paint on wet plaster —> fresco made in series of 49 separate days, so he had to have a plan

  • vanishing point of linear perspective is between Plato and Aristotle’s heads

  • they are at the center of an architectural structure and arches

  • figures are grouped by activities appropriate to them

Raphael, Adam and Eve, (1515)

• design based off of L’s Leda (Eve’s arms extended- similar balance between their two Eves)

• the buildings in the background plagiarized from Durer in Germany)

• the two figures show ideals of the Italian Renaissance