2022-09-29 06:45 Posted in Hebei
The most famous of the three masters of the Renaissance was Leonardo da Vinci, but the greatest influence on the art world was Raphael. This is because painters of Raphael's time faced three contradictions: the artist's realistic impulse and the contradiction of the employer's will; How to transform this poisonous and dangerous ancient Greek myth into a flesh-and-blood contradiction that nourishes Christian theology; The technical contradictions brought about by the perspective method. The great thing about Raphael is that with his exquisite painting skills and extremely high emotional intelligence, he found a certain balance in various contradictions and walked out of his own way.
Portrait of Pope Julius II and Virgin and Child and St. John
After 1511, Raphael's creative talents changed rapidly, and he stepped into a state of perfection. Among them, representative works include "Portrait of Pope Julius II" and "Virgin and Child and St. John".
It is said that Raphael's original intention in creating these two paintings was to place them side by side in the Church of the Virgin Mary in Rome. Although the two paintings are now in the National Gallery in London and the Louvre in Paris, respectively, they still present an inseparable and complete scene to future generations.
Raphael (Portrait of Pope Julius II, 1511)
The portrait painted for Pope Julius II also resembles him personally, making those who see it fearful and even mistakenly believe that the papal figure is in front of him. In Portrait of Pope Julius II, the twilight old man looks to his left hand side, his expression somewhat painful, as if immersed in painful memories or meditation.
Raphael (Virgin and Child and St. John, 1511)
In the painting "The Virgin and the Child" and St. John, the Virgin holds out her right hand and lifts the scarf of the naked virgin Jesus on the bed, and all parts of the Son's head and body have reached a perfect state, showing the extraordinary characteristics of this child as the true Son of God. And the beauty of the Virgin Mary is no less than that of the Son, who looks at her son with love and looks with reverence and joy. Little St. John looked at the mother and son from the sidelines, his expression concentrated.
If we imagine that by looking at the two paintings together, Julius II's gaze is actually projected on the Virgin and Child and John, whose eyes are introverted, looking calmly at the Holy Family in a contemplative posture. Today, with the help of modern scientific analysis, we find that in St. John's position, Raphael originally painted a window, as if it were supposed to open a window for the pope to star.
Our Lady of Sistine
The Sistine Madonna is a masterpiece of the Madonna created by Raphael. When the painters of Raphael's contemporaries represented the Virgin Mary, the general facial contour of the Virgin should be elegant and regular oval, and her hairstyle should be simple, serious and simple, and exude a youthful and innocent temperament.
Raphael (Sistine Madonna, 1512-1514)
But the Virgin depicted by Raphael is more realistically infectious, the Virgin in her arms with the Son from heaven, bathed in a light, the Son in her arms and her are looking ahead, there is no halo on the top of the two people's heads, but there is no difference from ordinary people, the clouds are like curtains, slowly making the angels below the picture appear, and the San Sisto and Santa Barbara on both sides of the picture are the agents of the devout believers and the Virgin Son outside the picture.
Raphael (Our Lady of Forinno, 1512)
Vasari calls the work "unique and admirable", transforming the static image of the Virgin Mary in Our Lady of the Fellino into a more direct and dynamic communication with the viewer, a model of the elegance of the Virgin by combining naturalism and idealism.
Raphael (Woman in Veil, 1512-1513)
Raphael (Sagrada family, 1518)
There are many works that Raphael has been talked about, such as "The Woman in the Veil" and "The Holy Family", which are paintings that comprehensively express Raphael's creative ideas, showing that Raphael has mastered various painting techniques perfectly, but maintains restraint in using techniques, and never allows the display of technology to damage the expression of the subject.