Raphael Santi (1917)

S$79.00

Raphael Santi (1917)

S$79.00

Title: Raphael Santi

Author: Edward McCurdy

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 1917. Part of “The Arundel Library of Great Masters”.

Condition: Big, heavy hardcover. 2 of 20 plates are missing, namely: Plate VII – Madonna of the Meadow & Plate VIII: Madonna del Cardellino. Covers bright and beautiful, with very slight fraying and tearing to bottom edge of spine. Tanned edges, tiny bookseller’s sticker to ffep.  Pages clean, remaining 18 prints are gorgeous. About 11″ by 8″. Overseas shipping will cost extra.

A biography with 18 gorgeous tipped-in plates of Raphael’s paintings (should be 20 plates, 2 are missing). From the Arundel Library of Great Masters. Executed under the supervision of the Medici Society.

About Raphael:

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483 – 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.

Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his death at 37, leaving a large body of work. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking.

After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael’s more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models. His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (1504–1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates. (from wikipedia)