Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino1514
The Liberation of Saint Peter
Stanza di Eliodoro. Three scenes in one lunette: the angel wakes Peter in the cell; they walk out past the sleeping soldiers; the guards rouse on the stairs. A breakthrough image of nocturnal light.
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About Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino
1483–1520 · Italian
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino — called Raphael — was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His Vatican Stanze frescoes (1509–1514), the Sistine Chapel tapestry cartoons (1515–1516), and the Transfiguration (1520) established him alongside Michelangelo and Leonardo as a defining master of Christian art. His Madonnas — the Sistine, the Alba, the Belle Jardinière, the Madonna della Seggiola — became the image of the Virgin for centuries.