Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino1513
The Sistine Madonna
Mary, barefoot on the clouds, steps toward the viewer carrying the Christ child, flanked by Saint Sixtus and Saint Barbara and the two famous cherubs at the parapet. Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden.
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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.