Raphael - A Mortal God, 1483~ 1520 拉斐爾

BBC - Raphael - A Mortal God;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMDJhhbtqJQ

National Gallery

The artist Sir Thomas Lawrence was an admirer of Raphael. He managed to acquire Raphael's small but radiant painting 'An Allegory (‘Vision of a Knight’)', and kept it in his possession for 19 years. Find out more about artists' private acquisitions at our exhibition 'Painters' Paintings': http://bit.ly/28IGZ3B

National Gallery of Art

We begin our exploration of ‪#‎Zeitgeist‬ in the Renaissance, learning from the Gallery's head of the division of education, Lynn Russell. She notes: "A work of art embodying 'zeitgeist' will be different for every period in the history of art. When I think of 'zeitgeist' at the Gallery, I think of Raphael’s 'Alba Madonna.' This painting is the pinnacle of perfection for the High Renaissance. When you look at the composition, you realize one couldn’t take anything away or addanything else. There’s a sheer beauty in the way Raphael paints the foreground and uses atmospheric perspective—it’s almost an infinite existence of beauty. The figures sit comfortably in the 'tondo' (round) shape of the painting, keeping your eye fully involved. And the blending of the colors—there’s a quiet strength there."

What do you notice about the "Alba Madonna" that shares the spirit of the High Renaissance? ‪#‎ArtAtoZ‬

Raphael, "The Alba Madonna," c. 1510, oil on panel transferred to canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1937.1.24

British Museum

Raphael, The Virgin and Child, c. 1509, silverpoint, on pale pink prepared paper.

Raphael, "Head of the Virgin, and Four Studies of Heads by a Childish Hand," c. 1502, silverpoint over blind stylus on warm white prepared paper, on loan from The British Museum, London, © the Trustees of The British Museum, London

National Gallery of Art

06 Today we celebrate Raphael's birthday. With Leonardo and Michelangelo, Raphael is one of a triad of artists who epitomize the high Renaissance, a brief moment when a timeless, classical style produced a harmonious balance of form and meaning.

Learn about Raphael's Madonnas through the "Italian Renaissance Learning Resources" website: http://bit.ly/1Fq32l8

Raphael, "The Small Cowper Madonna," c. 1505 (Not on View)http://1.usa.gov/1D0xIKe

British Museum

Raphael died ‪#‎onthisday‬ in 1520. Here’s his famous drawing of the Virgin and Child http://ow.ly/L1cmO

Musei Vaticani




University of Oxford 和 Caroline Mouallim 及 Idris M. Isah 在Ashmolean Museum

This is a detail from Raphael’s 1517 chalk study of the ‘Heads of two Apostles and their Hands’. It relates to two figures, traditionally identified as the young Saint John the Evangelist and Saint Peter, in Raphael’s final painting ‘The Transfiguration’, now in the Vatican City. Raphael worked on his final painting until his death in 1520.

National Gallery

'An Allegory ('Vision of a Knight')' is an early work by Raphael:http://bit.ly/1CYffv0
The sleeping knight could be the Roman hero Scipio Africanus. The objects the women hold may represent the ideal attributes of the knight: the book, sword and flower suggesting the ideals of scholar, soldier and lover which a knight should combine.

As a Renaissance Door Closes, Others Open

By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO

VATICAN CITY — Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel may be off-limits while the next pope is chosen, but Raphael’s papal rooms, like that of Heliodorus, are on view after a 30-year restoration.








The Sistine Madonna by Raphael (1512-13)


Photograph: Corbis

National Gallery

Raphael was influenced by Leonardo da Vinci, whose ability to portray the thoughts and emotions of figures amazed him. In ‘The Madonna of the Pinks’, Raphael transformed a familiar subject into something new by depicting the mother and son with tender expressions, and not posed formally as in many paintings by earlier artists:http://bit.ly/1Fwn1wQ

游常山

義大利文藝復興三傑之一: 拉斐爾 許煌勝主講 4599協會專題演講紀錄

七月二十八日, 四五九九協會很榮幸再度邀請到資深會友也是美術專家許煌勝來主講「義大利文藝復興三傑之一: 拉斐爾」

這是一場雅俗共賞的知識盛宴，拉斐爾和達文西、米開朗基羅並列三不朽, 由畫家來主講更精采,師大美術系畢業後，又攻讀到台南藝術大學創作所畢業的許煌勝，娓娓道來，趣味橫生。

出生於1483年的拉斐爾在義大利的黃金時代，雖然只活了短短的37歲(比起達文西的67歲和米開朗基羅的89歲,應該是英年早逝)但是傑作眾多，而且他因為各種因素和個性與人為善，在義大利的那個年代算是集大成。

許煌勝特別透過幾幅拉斐爾的傑作, 分析大師的透視學的畫作技巧特別高超，也介紹了何以拉斐爾能夠集合所有名家的作品優點，發展出自己的卓越美術成就。

其中【雅典學院】這幅巨作將他和眾多長輩好友的面容，比擬成近二千年前的古希臘眾多聖哲，特別充滿趣味。

許煌勝也透過種種歷史考證推論告訴我們，文藝復興時期的油畫素材才起步不久，五百年後看這些名作，都可以反推論當時三大師創作名作的種種情況。

也就是如此,可以看出歐洲美術與數學和科學的密切關係,達文西的幾幅素描和解剖的名作，可以推論出西方美學的傳統，是迥異於東方模糊美學，和欠缺透視訓練的山水畫。

許煌勝引用達文西名言：【一切都是數學】，並秀出當年大師應數學家好友之邀請撰寫【黃金比例】專書時候的佩服，那精密的立體解剖讓人嘆為觀止。

短短一個多小時，十八位4599協會會友享受到深入淺出的義大利文藝復興的美學史，真是豐收的下午。