Bagilioni Deposition by Raphael

Oil on panel, 184 x 176 cm. Rome, Gallery Borghese. Signed and dated by Raphael Urbinas MDVII.

In 1608 it was sent by friars of San Francesco to Pope Paul V, who gave it to his nephew, Cardinal Scipione Borghese.

Study for Baglioni Deposition by Raphael

This study is drawing by pencil. 182 x 205 cm. Is in Oxford, Ashmolean Museum. this is not fist plan.

Raphael was very detailist and many many of studywas first before new olipainting.

The Dumb Girl by Raphael

Oil on panel 64 x 48 cm. Urbino, Gallery. This used to belong Uffizi, but was transferred to Urbino in 1927. its attribution to Raphael is extremely controversial. It is denied by, among others, Rumohr, Cavalcaselle, Morelli, and supported by Venturi, Serra and Brizio.

Its date 1506, judging by its construction, which places it above even the finest portions of the Doni portraits.

Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn by Raphael

Oil on panel 65 x 51 cm. Rome, Gallery Borghese. This appears in the Borghese inventory of 1760 as the work of Perugino. It was certainly repainted by a Florentine painter, at the sixteenth century. This painting is dating from 1505.

Vision of a Knight by Raphael

Oil on panel, 17 x 17 cm! (so small). This painting is in London, national Gallery. This and the three graces, now at Chantilly, belonged to the Borghese collection, Rome. At the end of the eighteenth century it was transfered to England. After belonging to three privat owners it was acquired by the National Gallery.

Ansidel Madonna by Raphael

Madonna enthroned with St John and St Nicholas. This painting is in London, National Gallery. Oil on panel 274 x 152 cm. Begin inPerugia in about 1504 and finished in 1506. It was acquired in 1885 by the National Gallery. The panel is dated illegibly on the hem of the drape, below the left hand of the Virgin.

Man with crossed arms by Cezanne

This painting from Cezanne is since 1897. Oil on canvas 92 x 73 cm. Is in New Yoirk, Guggenheim Museum.

Paul Cezanne was born at Aix-en-Provence on 19 January 1839, at the end of the decade in which all the other imressionist were born: Manet, Pissarro, Sisley, degas, Renoir and Monet.

Madonna of the Grand Duke by Raphael

Oil on panel 84 x 55 cm, original is now in Florence, Pitti (this is my copy, oil too) It once belonged to the painter Carlo Dolci. In 1799 it was bought vy Ferdinand III, who admired it so tremendously that he refused to be separated form it even when he went on long journeys. Date to given is 1505.

On the rigt side is study of Madonna and chil drawing with pencil. This is the first circular drawing for the Madonna of the Grand Duke.

St George study

Nothing is not for nothing. This study of picture under and this picture is in Florence, Uffizi. Original (under) is in thel Louvre.

St George and the Dragon by Raphael

This painting is oil on panel, 31 x 27 cm (so small). Paris, Louvre. this and the St Michael (in Louvre to), is part of collection of Charles I of England, sold to Cardinal Mazarin. The Cardinalś heirs sold it to Louis XIV. It is datable to the early years of Raphaelś Florentine period, according to most scholars.

It might have been part of a diptych with the St Michael, but this is more difficult to establish. Certain ast historians contradict this theory by pointing out that the St michael is stylistically inferior and was propably painted before Raphael Urbino for tuscany.

Marriage of the Virgin detail

One more time this painting, becasu this is very interesting detail of this painting.

In October 1504, whne he had finished the Marriage of the Virgin for the church of San Francesco, in Citta di Castello, he arrived in Florence with a lettet of introduction from Giovanni Feltria.

Marriage of the Virgin by Raphael

Oil on curved panel. 170 x 117 cm. Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera. Signed and dated on the frieze and spandrels of the temple colonnade, Raphael Urbinas MDIII. Commissioned by the Albizzini family for the Chapel of St Joseph in the church of San Francesco in Citta di Castello.

Then it was sold back to the Milanese merchant Sannazzari. In 1804 it was inherited by the Ospedale Maggiore, Milan, and in 1806 acquired by the Accademia di Brera. It was imperfectly restored at the end of the nineteenth century, and was recently slashed by a lunatic. Brilliant restoration has completely concealed the damage.