The 2012 Raphael exhibition at the Prado focuses on the latter part of the artist's career, and includes works that are attributed to members of his studio, most notably Giulio Romano and Gianfrancesco Penni.
With special thanks to the Prado, I have received the full list of confirmed works for the exhibition, which includes over 40 paintings and 30 drawings. Working from this list, I have assembled an interactive gallery of key paintings, which is presented in a similar manner to the format being used for Open Raphael Online, the open access web resource which aims to provide a detailed account of the history and works of this famous artist and his studio.
In upcoming weeks, 3PP will present four selections from this list, exploring the relevant historical and technical information available for each work. These examples have been chosen as they are demonstrative of important aspects of studying Raphael and Renaissance art in general:
Please note, the attributions listed in the gallery below are as listed on the document provided by the Prado. The listing of attributions at Open Raphael Online will follow the "neutral review" approach also utilised by the Cranach Digital Archive - where the catalogue entry of the custodian museum or gallery is provided as the "default" attribution.
The publication of exhibition catalogues often contain the latest available evidence for the works presented, and detailed discussion of the challenges faced in pronouncing attributions. The Prado exhibition catalogue will be published in Spanish and English, and promises to be an essential resource.
The gallery format of Open Raphael Online is designed to be as user-friendly as possible. Complex navigation is the downfall of any site which hopes to engage public as well as professional interest. The version below is slightly modified compared to the final version that will be available at Open Raphael Online - which will also feature a way to access a detailed account of each work by clicking the image. This modified version below will only launch a larger view of the painting shown.
For those interested, the full list of works on show at the Prado exhibition can be viewed by clicking the button below. Available Hi-resolution images of works can be viewed from the links below, primarily featuring pieces from the Prado and the Louvre.
Full list of exhibited works Attribution - according to exhibition listing
[R] Raphael
[W] Workshop
[GR] Giulio Romano
[GP] Gianfrancesco Penni
Paintings
Madonna del Pesce [R]
Santa Cecilia [R]
Baldassare Castiglione [R]
Self portrait with Giulio Romano [R]
Bindo Altoviti [R]
Lorenzo de’ Medici [R]
Cardinal Bernardo Dovizi da Bibbiena [R]
The Madonna della Rosa [R]
La Perla [R]
Madonna of the Diadem [R or GP?]
The Madonna of Divine Love [R&GP?]
The Holy Family of Francis I [R&W?]
Christ Fallen under the Cross (The Spasimo) [R&W]
[Great] St Michael [R&W?]
Saint John in the Wilderness [R&W?]
Madonna of the Candelabra [R&W]
Giuliano de’Medici [R&W]
The Small Holy Family [R&W?]
Holy Family with an Oak [GR & possible intervention by R?]
The Dëesis (Christ in Glory with Saints) [GR]
The Vision of Ezekiel [GR, designed by R]
The Flagellation [GR and assistant]
The Circumcision [GR]
The Virgin and Child and Saint John (The Madonnina) [GR]
Ceres/Abundance [GR]
The Hertz Madonna [GR]
The Virgin and Child (The Wellington Madonna)[GR]
Novar Madonna [GR]
Spinola Holy Family [GR]
The Virgin and Child [GR]
Portrait of a Young Man [GR]
Woman at a Mirror [GR]
Portrait of a Young Woman [GR, reworked by R?]
The Viceregine of Naples [GR, w. intervention by R?]
Version of The Small Holy Family [GP]
Nativity (Borghese)[GP]
Nativity (Campania)[GP]
The Holy Family with Saint John and Saint Catherine [GP]
The Holy Family with Saint John [GP]
Saint John the Baptist filling his Bowl in the Wilderness [GP]
The Holy Family with a Book [attr. GP?]
The Visitation [GR & GP?]
Copy or Transfiguration [Workshop of GR&GP] *will stay in Prado Permanent collection Room.49
Drawing/compostional study/modello/cartoon
Modello (for the Madonna del Pesce) [R]
Study for two horsemen [R]
Study for the composition of Transfiguration [Copy after GP, after R]
Study for Christ, Moses, Elijah, three apostles and two other figures in Transfiguration [R]
Study for Saint Matthew and another apostle in Transfiguration [R]
Auxiliary cartoon for the head of a young apostle in Transfiguration [R]
Study for two apostles in Transfiguration [R]
Nude study for Transfiguration [Copy after GP, after R]
Study for an apostle in Transfiguration [R]
Study for the head of a kneeling woman in Transfiguration [R]
Study for a preliminary versión of Madonna della Rosa [After R]
Auxiliary cartoon for the head of Saint Matthew in Transfiguration [R]
Auxiliary cartoon for the head of an apostle in Transfiguration [R]
Auxiliary cartoon for the heads and hands of two apostles in Transfiguration [R]
Compositional study (for the Madonna del Pesce) [R]
Studies for the Virgin in La Perla [R]
Studies for La Perla [R&GR]
Cartoon fragment of Saint Elizabeth, Saint John, the Infant Christ and part of an angel [GR?]
Study for the possessed son and his father in Transfiguration [GR]
Study for a figure in The Stoning of Saint Stephen [GR]
Cartoon for The Stoning of Saint Stephen [GR]
Study for the Small Holy Family [GR]
Study for the Hertz Madonna [GR]
Study for the Christ Child (Madonna of the Candelabra) [GP]
Study after the Saint John in the Wilderness [GP]
Modello (for Santa Cecilia) [GP]
Study for the Holy Family [GP]
Modello for the first version of The Transfiguration [Copy after GP, after R]
Sculpture/Metalwork
Base of Borghese Candelabra [Roman 25 BCE - 25CE)
God the Father accompanied by Symbols of the Evangelists [Pieter van Aeslst after a cartoon by Tommaso Vincidor]
The gallery grid design just makes natural sense! I wonder why we don't see arrangements like that more often. It's funny to see how many sites geared around art are still designed with print layout standards. The web actually allows you to put all of an artists work on *one* page and have all the information filter through each visual link - an inspired design!
I really look forward to seeing "Open Raphael" once it's up and running :)
I'm also intrigued about the "Viceregine of Naples" - I know that famous Louvre piece is not considered to be "Joanna of Aragon" anymore but I'm interested to know the story behind it.
Thanks for your hard work H. Raphael couldn't have paid for a better advocate/publicist than you!
What great work! The images are absolutely wonderful. This exhibition looks fantastic.
I don't believe that I have seen the Cranach Digital Archive before - perhaps you have shown it to me, and I'm just not remembering. That looks like a great source, too. (It blows my mind to think about how the Cranach Digital Archive has a whole bunch of partnering institutions and funding from the Mellon Foundation, and you have undertaken your Raphael project without such assistance! What a feat on your part!)
@Stephanie - The portrait if Dona Isabel is one of my favourites - I am very much looking forward to seeing it in person. Nb. I have since corrected "Viceregine" to "Vicereine" the former being the term that is repeatedly used in the translation of the catalogue raisonne by Meyer Zur Capellen - and apparently not a word that appears in the English language!
@Alberti's Window - a wonderful project like the Cranach Digital Archive will be a benchmark for future initiatives - including the Rembrandt Resource that has also secured Mellon funding. The CDA's interface is an improvement over the the NGLondon's Raphael Research Resource, though at this stage is still incomplete - arguably the most interesting aspects of the works to general readers - discussion of the iconography and the meaning of the pictures - is missing in many entries. I hope they add them in soon. One of the aims of Open Raphael Online is to prove that a useful art history web resource does *not* need a huge lump of money thrown at it, with its implementation a roll of the dice based on the whim of the team designing it. One can easily use existing tools to get a unified body of information out there. This is what I hope to demonstrate.
"User experience" seems to be consistently forgotten in such things. Even the Getty's wonderful new site on Ghent Altarpiece is not a naturally intuitive experience. I really wonder who is behind designing these things and if they ever bother testing them with the public or students.
I'm following with great interested your reports on 3pipe problems. I'm surprised you haven't wrote yet about the new publication of Jurg Meyer Zur Cappellen concerned with the Madonna dell'Impannata Northwick.
Hello Antonio. Welcome to 3PP! Thank you for the kind comments.
I have yet to receive my review copy of the volume you mention. From the excerpt available on the publisher's website it seems they are expanded presentations of the content presented by Professor Meyer zur Capellen in his 2008 catalogue (volume 3) on Roman Portraits.
The information from aforementioned volumes will be included when creating the entries for these works in the Open Raphael project.
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This is an unbelievable exhibition list. Your high res images look brilliant and are getting me exited to see them!
Wow! TPP always amazes me! How do you do it H?
The gallery grid design just makes natural sense! I wonder why we don't see arrangements like that more often. It's funny to see how many sites geared around art are still designed with print layout standards. The web actually allows you to put all of an artists work on *one* page and have all the information filter through each visual link - an inspired design!
I really look forward to seeing "Open Raphael" once it's up and running :)
I'm also intrigued about the "Viceregine of Naples" - I know that famous Louvre piece is not considered to be "Joanna of Aragon" anymore but I'm interested to know the story behind it.
Thanks for your hard work H. Raphael couldn't have paid for a better advocate/publicist than you!
Stephanie
H:
Incredible images.Thank you.
Frank
What great work! The images are absolutely wonderful. This exhibition looks fantastic.
I don't believe that I have seen the Cranach Digital Archive before - perhaps you have shown it to me, and I'm just not remembering. That looks like a great source, too. (It blows my mind to think about how the Cranach Digital Archive has a whole bunch of partnering institutions and funding from the Mellon Foundation, and you have undertaken your Raphael project without such assistance! What a feat on your part!)
-M
Many thanks for the comments!
@Stephanie - The portrait if Dona Isabel is one of my favourites - I am very much looking forward to seeing it in person. Nb. I have since corrected "Viceregine" to "Vicereine" the former being the term that is repeatedly used in the translation of the catalogue raisonne by Meyer Zur Capellen - and apparently not a word that appears in the English language!
@Alberti's Window - a wonderful project like the Cranach Digital Archive will be a benchmark for future initiatives - including the Rembrandt Resource that has also secured Mellon funding. The CDA's interface is an improvement over the the NGLondon's Raphael Research Resource, though at this stage is still incomplete - arguably the most interesting aspects of the works to general readers - discussion of the iconography and the meaning of the pictures - is missing in many entries. I hope they add them in soon. One of the aims of Open Raphael Online is to prove that a useful art history web resource does *not* need a huge lump of money thrown at it, with its implementation a roll of the dice based on the whim of the team designing it. One can easily use existing tools to get a unified body of information out there. This is what I hope to demonstrate.
"User experience" seems to be consistently forgotten in such things. Even the Getty's wonderful new site on Ghent Altarpiece is not a naturally intuitive experience. I really wonder who is behind designing these things and if they ever bother testing them with the public or students.
Kind Regards
H
Dear H
How amazin article!
Great job once again in promoting and shering with us this excellent event.
Fondly
G
Link to a documentary about the exhibition, broadcast on Spanish television. It's in Spanish but can see pictures of the exhibition at the end.
http://www.rtve.es/noticias/20120608/informe-semanal-ultimo-rafael/533862.shtml
Thank you for this post and the incredible images, this seems to be the next best thing for those of us who are not going to make it to the exhibit.
Sedef
Dear Mr Hasan,
I'm following with great interested your reports on 3pipe problems.
I'm surprised you haven't wrote yet about the new publication of Jurg Meyer Zur Cappellen concerned with the Madonna dell'Impannata Northwick.
Best regards
Antonio
Hello Antonio. Welcome to 3PP! Thank you for the kind comments.
I have yet to receive my review copy of the volume you mention. From the excerpt available on the publisher's website it seems they are expanded presentations of the content presented by Professor Meyer zur Capellen in his 2008 catalogue (volume 3) on Roman Portraits.
The information from aforementioned volumes will be included when creating the entries for these works in the Open Raphael project.
Many kind regards
H
Press conference Late Raphael. Comments by curators Tom Henry:
http://www.museodelprado.es/en/pradomedia/multimedia/press-conference-late-raphael/
and Paul Joannides:
http://www.museodelprado.es/en/pradomedia/multimedia/press-conference-late-raphael-1/
Many thanks for the links Roberto - great videos from the press conference, featuring some interesting remarks by Dr Henry and Professor Joannides.
Kind Regards
H
Superb coverage!
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