From the MD Archive - August 2022
📍Location: National Gallery
❤️Favourite Artwork: The Vision of Ezekiel
🏷Favourite Name for Artwork: The Holy Family with a Pomegranate
💡Tattoo Inspiration: The sun & moon from ‘The Mond Crucifixion’
📜What I learnt:
➡️ A circle shaped painting is called a ‘tondo’ and is associated with Florence
➡️ Raphael was a workaholic, he received his first commission at the age of 17 and completed an enormous volume of work up until his untimely death at the age of 37
➡️ He sketched using a metal point to scratch paper before committing to a drawing
➡️ He was a master draftsman, and allowed other artists to use his sketches as references for their works
➡️ He was also an architect and designed many buildings. He also designed mosaics which hadn’t been created in Rome for centuries
➡️ It’s likely he was the first artist to study the female nude since classical antiquity (& the nature of his drawings suggest they are from life)
➡️ The figures in his work ‘The Judgement of Paris’ were used by Manet in his 1863 painting ‘Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe’
➡️ St Cecelia is the patron saint of Music
➡️ He was the only Renaissance artist to depict the Old Testament story ‘The Vision of Ezekiel’
Images
- Outside the Natonal Gallery entrance to the exhibition
- The Mond Crucifixion
- The Holy Family with a Pomegranate
- The Alba Madonna
- The Incredulity of St Thomas
- Study for an Angel
- St Cecelia with Saints Paul, John the Evangelist, Augustine and Mary Magdalene
- Standing Female Nude
- The Judgement of Paris
- The Vision of Ezekiel