Raphael, Painter and Architect in Rome: Itineraries
  • Fully illustrated guide to Raphael's masterpieces in the Vatican, Rome's museums, galleries, and churches
  • Includes Raphael's built architecture and his projects (for St. Peter, etc.)
  • The concise texts are up to date with the latest research on the artist and the findings deriving from recent conservation work
  • The Letter to Leo X, co-written by Raphael and Baldassar Castiglione, the author of The Courtesan, is also discussed; it is one of the first texts in history on the need to protect and preserve ancient monuments
Raphael arrived in Rome in 1508 and remained there until his death in 1520, working as painter and architect for popes Julius II and Leo X and for the most prestigious patrons. Here the artist changed his painting style several times, looking at the works of Michelangelo, Sebastiano del Piombo and the vast repertoire of ancient painting and sculpture. In the Eternal City Raphael practiced architecture for the first time, designing buildings that reflected the models of Antiquity such as the Pantheon, the descriptions deriving from written sources such as Vitruvius' treaty on architecture, and the examples of modern architects like Donato Bramante.

This guide supplies essential and up to date information on all the civil or religious buildings designed or built by Raphael in Rome, and the frescoes and paintings, housed in churches or museums, whether executed in the city or arrived there at a later stage.
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Raphael, Painter and Architect in Rome: Itineraries
  • Fully illustrated guide to Raphael's masterpieces in the Vatican, Rome's museums, galleries, and churches
  • Includes Raphael's built architecture and his projects (for St. Peter, etc.)
  • The concise texts are up to date with the latest research on the artist and the findings deriving from recent conservation work
  • The Letter to Leo X, co-written by Raphael and Baldassar Castiglione, the author of The Courtesan, is also discussed; it is one of the first texts in history on the need to protect and preserve ancient monuments
Raphael arrived in Rome in 1508 and remained there until his death in 1520, working as painter and architect for popes Julius II and Leo X and for the most prestigious patrons. Here the artist changed his painting style several times, looking at the works of Michelangelo, Sebastiano del Piombo and the vast repertoire of ancient painting and sculpture. In the Eternal City Raphael practiced architecture for the first time, designing buildings that reflected the models of Antiquity such as the Pantheon, the descriptions deriving from written sources such as Vitruvius' treaty on architecture, and the examples of modern architects like Donato Bramante.

This guide supplies essential and up to date information on all the civil or religious buildings designed or built by Raphael in Rome, and the frescoes and paintings, housed in churches or museums, whether executed in the city or arrived there at a later stage.
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Raphael, Painter and Architect in Rome: Itineraries

Raphael, Painter and Architect in Rome: Itineraries

Raphael, Painter and Architect in Rome: Itineraries

Raphael, Painter and Architect in Rome: Itineraries

Overview

  • Fully illustrated guide to Raphael's masterpieces in the Vatican, Rome's museums, galleries, and churches
  • Includes Raphael's built architecture and his projects (for St. Peter, etc.)
  • The concise texts are up to date with the latest research on the artist and the findings deriving from recent conservation work
  • The Letter to Leo X, co-written by Raphael and Baldassar Castiglione, the author of The Courtesan, is also discussed; it is one of the first texts in history on the need to protect and preserve ancient monuments
Raphael arrived in Rome in 1508 and remained there until his death in 1520, working as painter and architect for popes Julius II and Leo X and for the most prestigious patrons. Here the artist changed his painting style several times, looking at the works of Michelangelo, Sebastiano del Piombo and the vast repertoire of ancient painting and sculpture. In the Eternal City Raphael practiced architecture for the first time, designing buildings that reflected the models of Antiquity such as the Pantheon, the descriptions deriving from written sources such as Vitruvius' treaty on architecture, and the examples of modern architects like Donato Bramante.

This guide supplies essential and up to date information on all the civil or religious buildings designed or built by Raphael in Rome, and the frescoes and paintings, housed in churches or museums, whether executed in the city or arrived there at a later stage.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9788833671017
Publisher: Acc Publishing Group Ltd
Publication date: 11/23/2020
Pages: 96
Product dimensions: 7.96(w) x 9.92(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Francesco Benelli is associate professor of History of Architecture at the University of Bologna. His publications include The Architecture in Giotto's Paintings (Cambridge University Press, 2014).Silvia Ginzburg is professor of Modern Art History at the University of Rome III. She has written on the Carraccis, Raphael, Vasari. She recently co-curated the exhibition Raphael and His Friends in Urbino (2019).

Table of Contents

Raphael, Painter in Rome Silvia Ginzburg 7

Raphael, Architect in Rome Francesco Benelli 13

Vatican City, Vatican Museums

Raphael's Rooms

The Stanza della Segnatura 18

The Stanza di Eliodoro 24

The Stanza dell'Incendio di Borgo 30

The Sala di Costantino 34

Pinacoteca Vaticana

Coronation of the Vergin 36

Hope, Charity, and Faith (predella of the Transport of Christ to the Sepulchre) 36

The Madonna di Foligno 38

The Tapestries of the Acts of the Apostles 40

The Transfiguration 44

Vatican Palaces

The Apartment of Cardinal Bibbiena* 46

The Sala dei Chiaroscuri* 50

Vatican Loggias* 51

Galleria Borghese

Portrait of a Man 56

Portrait of a Woman (Lady with a Unicorn) 58

Transport of Christ to the Sepulchre 60

Santa Maria Della Pace

Sybils and Prophets 62

Villa Farnesina

Galatea 66

The Loggia of Psyche 68

Chigi Stables 70

Sant'Agostino

Isaiah 72

Santa Maria del Popolo

Chigi Chapel 74

Galleria Doria Pamphilj

Portrait of Andrea Navagero and Agostino Beazzano 78

Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini

La Fornarina 80

Sant'Eligio degli Orefici 82

Palazzo di Jacopo da Brescia 84

Palazzo Alberini 86

Villa Madama* 88

The project for St Peter and other buildings, destroyed or not built 90

The Study of Ancient Architecture and the Letter to Leo X 92

*not open to the public

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