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Raphael Art Images for Readers

Prologue: Michelangelo's Drawing of Himself Painting the Sistine

Prologue: Michelangelo's Drawing of Himself Painting the Sistine

Michelangelo wrote this poem and drew this caricature of himself (standing up!) while painting the Sistine Ceiling. To see a closer of image of his drawing, go here

Chapter 2: Three Graces

Chapter 2: Three Graces

For image details of Raphael’s Three Graces

Chapter 2: Perugino's Marriage of the Virgin

Chapter 2: Perugino's Marriage of the Virgin

Go here to see a side-by-side comparison of Perugino and Raphael’s Marriage of the Virgin altarpieces

Chapter 2: Raphael's Marriage of the Virgin

Chapter 2: Raphael's Marriage of the Virgin

For a closer picture of Raphael’s signature on temple

Chapter 3: Michelangelo's David

Chapter 3: Michelangelo's David

To see another one of Raphael’s drawings of David and Michelangelo’s statue, go here

Chapter 3: Michelangelo's Pieta

Chapter 3: Michelangelo's Pieta

To see both the Pieta and the close up of the signature (as well as museum details), go here

Chapter 4: Verrocchio's Tobias and the Angel

Chapter 4: Verrocchio's Tobias and the Angel

To see two Verrocchio paintings and their details

Chapter 4: Ghiberti's Baptistery Doors in Florence

Chapter 4: Ghiberti's Baptistery Doors in Florence

See location details of Ghiberti’s Baptistery Doors in Florence

Chapter 5: Raphael's Ansidei Madonna

Chapter 5: Raphael's Ansidei Madonna

To see image details of Ansidei Madonna

Chapter 5: Battle of Anghiari by Leonardo

Chapter 5: Battle of Anghiari by Leonardo

To see image details of this copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s Battle of Anghiari fresco for Florence’s City Hall

Chapter 5: Michelangelo's Battle of Cascina

Chapter 5: Michelangelo's Battle of Cascina

Go here for additional images of Michelangelo’s plans for his city hall fresco

Chapter 5: Mona Lisa

Chapter 5: Mona Lisa

To see image details on Leonardo’s Mona Lisa

Chapter 6: Masaccio's Holy Trinity

Chapter 6: Masaccio's Holy Trinity

For image details of Masaccio’s Holy Trinity

Chapter 6: Ghirlandaio's Massacre of the Innocents

Chapter 6: Ghirlandaio's Massacre of the Innocents

For details about Ghirlandaio’s frescos in Santa Maria Novella

Chapter 6: Raphael Madonnas during Florentine Period

Chapter 6: Raphael Madonnas during Florentine Period

To see a sampling of Raphael’s Madonnas during his Florentine period

Chapter 8: Francesco Maria della Rovere portrait

Chapter 8: Francesco Maria della Rovere portrait

For image details of Francesco Maria portrait

Chapter 9: Lamentation of Christ

Chapter 9: Lamentation of Christ

For image details of Lamentation (aka Deposition)
To see Mantegna’s etching that helped inspire Raphael’s Lamentation

Chapter 9: Michelangelo's Doni Tondo

Chapter 9: Michelangelo's Doni Tondo

Go here image details of Michelangelo’s Doni Tondo

Chapter 10: Wall frescos in the Sistine Chapel

Chapter 10: Wall frescos in the Sistine Chapel

To view a collection of wall frescoes from Sistine

Chapter 11: Giotto's Navicella

Chapter 11: Giotto's Navicella

For more images of Giotto’s lost fresco of Navicella

Chapter 17: Fra Angelico's Annunciation

Chapter 17: Fra Angelico's Annunciation

For image details of Fra Angelico’s Annunciation

Chapter 19: Pinturicchio Masterpieces in Borgia Apartments

Chapter 19: Pinturicchio Masterpieces in Borgia Apartments

To see more images from the Borgia Apartments

Chapter 20: Raphael's Justice Tondo

Chapter 20: Raphael's Justice Tondo

For image details about Raphael’s Justice tondo

Chapter 22: Michelangelo's Bacchus

Chapter 22: Michelangelo's Bacchus

For image details of Michelangelo’s Bacchus

Chapter 23: Marsyas & Apollo by Sodoma

Chapter 23: Marsyas & Apollo by Sodoma

For image details of Marsyas & Apollo

Chapter 23: Parts of Ceiling Completed by Raphael's Rivals

Chapter 23: Parts of Ceiling Completed by Raphael's Rivals

See more about this portion of ceiling in the Pope’s Private Rooms with pieces completed by Raphael’s rivals (only some grotesques and details by rivals; Raphael completed the main scenes later)

Chapter 23: Perugino's Ceiling

Chapter 23: Perugino's Ceiling

See image details about this ceiling in Pope Julius II’s private rooms, painted by Perugino

Chapter 23: Stanza della Segnatura Ceiling

Chapter 23: Stanza della Segnatura Ceiling

To see image details of Raphael’s ceiling

Chapter 24: Masaccio's Tribute Money

Chapter 24: Masaccio's Tribute Money

For image details on Tribute Money

Chapter 24: Baronci Altarpiece

Chapter 24: Baronci Altarpiece

For more images of Raphael’s Baronci Altarpiece (now in pieces)

Chapter 24: Crucifixion by Andrea Della Robbia

Chapter 24: Crucifixion by Andrea Della Robbia

More image details on the Della Robbia

Chapter 24: Fra Bartolomeo's Last Judgment

Chapter 24: Fra Bartolomeo's Last Judgment

For image details of the Fra Bartolomeo piece, inspiration for Raphael’s Disputation of the Holy Sacrament (aka Religion Wall)

Chapter 25: Delphic Sibyl - Sistine Ceiling

Chapter 25: Delphic Sibyl - Sistine Ceiling

To see image details of Delphic Sibyl

Chapter 25: Two Early Noah Scenes from Sistine Chapel

Chapter 25: Two Early Noah Scenes from Sistine Chapel

To see both early Noah panels, the Flood and Drunkenness of Noah

Chapter 25: "Flipping the Fig"

Chapter 25: "Flipping the Fig"

To see full Prophet Zechariah image
To see “flipping the fig” detail

Chapter 27: Disputation of the Holy Sacrament (aka Religion Wall)

Chapter 27: Disputation of the Holy Sacrament (aka Religion Wall)

To see image details about the Disputa, go here
To see preparation drawings for the Disputa

Chapter 28: Bramante's Tempietto

Chapter 28: Bramante's Tempietto

For more details on Bramante’s Tempietto design

Chapter 28: Botticelli's Birth of Venus

Chapter 28: Botticelli's Birth of Venus

To see image details about Botticelli’s Birth of Venus

Chapter 29: St. Michael panels

Chapter 29: St. Michael panels

To see both the larger and smaller versions of St. Michael by Raphael

Chapter 31: Portrait of a Cardinal Alidosi

Chapter 31: Portrait of a Cardinal Alidosi

To see image information about Raphael’s portrait of a Cardinal

Chapter 33: Battle of San Romano

Chapter 33: Battle of San Romano

To see all three San Romano paintings

Chapter 33: Raphael's Poetry Wall (aka Parnassus)

Chapter 33: Raphael's Poetry Wall (aka Parnassus)

To see image details of Parnassus
To see preparatory drawings of Parnassus

Chapter 36: Philosophy Wall, aka School of Athens

Chapter 36: Philosophy Wall, aka School of Athens

To see image details about Raphael’s School of Athens
To see individual portraits in School of Athens
To see preparatory drawings for the fresco

Chapter 39: Prophets and Sibyls from First Half of Sistine

Chapter 39: Prophets and Sibyls from First Half of Sistine

Go here to see all the prophets and sibyls from first half of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling

Chapter 39: The Flood from Sistine

Chapter 39: The Flood from Sistine

For image details on The Flood

Chapter 39: Sacrifice of Noah - Sistine Ceiling

Chapter 39: Sacrifice of Noah - Sistine Ceiling

For image details for the Sacrifice of Noah

Chapter 39: Drunkenness of Noah - Sistine Ceiling

Chapter 39: Drunkenness of Noah - Sistine Ceiling

More image details on Drunkenness of Noah panel

Chapter 39: Ignudi from first half of Sistine

Chapter 39: Ignudi from first half of Sistine

To see more of the ignudi from the first half of the Sistine (the naked men Michelangelo painted on the Sistine) go here

Chapter 39: Temptation & Expulsion on the Sistine Ceiling

Chapter 39: Temptation & Expulsion on the Sistine Ceiling

For image details on Temptation & Expulsion

Chapter 39: Creation of Eve on the Sistine

Chapter 39: Creation of Eve on the Sistine

To see image details on Creation of Eve

Chapter 40: Completed Library

Chapter 40: Completed Library

For more images of Raphael’s finished Stanza della Segnatura

Chapter 41: Michelangelo as Heraclitus in School of Athens

Chapter 41: Michelangelo as Heraclitus in School of Athens

To see image information about this detail in the School of Athens

Chapter 49: Ravenna Mosaics

Chapter 49: Ravenna Mosaics

For more more images of the Byzantine mosaics in Ravenna

Chapter 50: Expulsion of Heliodorus

Chapter 50: Expulsion of Heliodorus

To see image details of this fresco
To see preparatory drawings for this fresco

Chapter 51: Portrait of Pope Julius II

Chapter 51: Portrait of Pope Julius II

To see image details of this painting

Chapter 53: Christ Giving Keys to St. Peter

Chapter 53: Christ Giving Keys to St. Peter

For image details of Perugino’s Christ Giving the Keys to St. Peter

Chapter 55: Van Eyck's Marriage of Arnolfini

Chapter 55: Van Eyck's Marriage of Arnolfini

To see a close up of the mirror in Van Eyck’s marriage portrait

Chapter 55: Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling

Chapter 55: Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling

To see more images of the completed Sistine Chapel Ceiling

Chapter 56: Michelangelo's Pieta

Chapter 56: Michelangelo's Pieta

For image details on Michelangelo’s Pieta

Chapter 57: Piero della Francesco

Chapter 57: Piero della Francesco

For examples of landscapes in Piero della Francesca paintings

Chapter 57: Madonna della Seggiola, the tondo of Margherita Luti

Chapter 57: Madonna della Seggiola, the tondo of Margherita Luti

To see image details about this Raphael madonna

Chapter 58: Triumph of Galatea

Chapter 58: Triumph of Galatea

To see image details on Raphael’s Triumph of Galatea

Chapter 59: Madonna of the Veil

Chapter 59: Madonna of the Veil

For image details of Raphael’s Madonna of the Veil

Chapter 60: Mass at Bolsena

Chapter 60: Mass at Bolsena

To see portraits of Riario and Margherita Luti of Mass at Bolsena
To see close ups of additional portraits in the fresco

Chapter 62: Laocoön and His Sons

Chapter 62: Laocoön and His Sons

To see image details information about this sculpture

Chapter 63: Madonna of Humility

Chapter 63: Madonna of Humility

For image details about this Madonna, called the Alba Madonna, go here

Chapter 63: Bindo Altoviti Portrait

Chapter 63: Bindo Altoviti Portrait

To see image details go here

Chapter 63: Catherine of Alexandria

Chapter 63: Catherine of Alexandria

For image details of this artwork, go here

Chapter 63: Madonna of the Goldfinch

Chapter 63: Madonna of the Goldfinch

For image details of this Raphael altarpiece, go here

Chapter 63: Self-Portrait

Chapter 63: Self-Portrait

To see two different Self-Portraits by Raphael

Chapter 63: Sistine Madonna

Chapter 63: Sistine Madonna

For more details of Raphael’s Sistine Madonna

Chapter 64: Putti from Sistine Madonna

Chapter 64: Putti from Sistine Madonna

To see the entire altarpiece and the putti detail

Epilogue: Transfiguration

Epilogue: Transfiguration

To see image details of this altarpiece

Coda: Raising of Lazarus

Coda: Raising of Lazarus

Image details of Sebastiano del Piombo’s Raising of Lazarus (designs by Michelangelo)

Coda: La Fornarina

Coda: La Fornarina

To see the close up of the arm band that Raphael signed on this painting of La Fornarina, “The Baker’s Daughter,” Margherita Luti

Author's Note: Margherita Luti Paintings

Author's Note: Margherita Luti Paintings

To see more paintings of Margherita Luti by Raphael

Author's Note: Head From Villa Farnesina

Author's Note: Head From Villa Farnesina

For image details of this fresco legendarily painted by Michelangelo in the same hall as Raphael’s Triumph of Galatea

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Prologue: Michelangelo's Drawing of Himself Painting the Sistine
Chapter 2: Three Graces
Chapter 2: Perugino's Marriage of the Virgin
Chapter 2: Raphael's Marriage of the Virgin
Chapter 3: Michelangelo's David
Chapter 3: Michelangelo's Pieta
Chapter 4: Verrocchio's Tobias and the Angel
Chapter 4: Ghiberti's Baptistery Doors in Florence
Chapter 5: Raphael's Ansidei Madonna
Chapter 5: Battle of Anghiari by Leonardo
Chapter 5: Michelangelo's Battle of Cascina
Chapter 5: Mona Lisa
Chapter 6: Masaccio's Holy Trinity
Chapter 6: Ghirlandaio's Massacre of the Innocents
Chapter 6: Raphael Madonnas during Florentine Period
Chapter 8: Francesco Maria della Rovere portrait
Chapter 9: Lamentation of Christ
Chapter 9: Michelangelo's Doni Tondo
Chapter 10: Wall frescos in the Sistine Chapel
Chapter 11: Giotto's Navicella
Chapter 17: Fra Angelico's Annunciation
Chapter 19: Pinturicchio Masterpieces in Borgia Apartments
Chapter 20: Raphael's Justice Tondo
Chapter 22: Michelangelo's Bacchus
Chapter 23: Marsyas & Apollo by Sodoma
Chapter 23: Parts of Ceiling Completed by Raphael's Rivals
Chapter 23: Perugino's Ceiling
Chapter 23: Stanza della Segnatura Ceiling
Chapter 24: Masaccio's Tribute Money
Chapter 24: Baronci Altarpiece
Chapter 24: Crucifixion by Andrea Della Robbia
Chapter 24: Fra Bartolomeo's Last Judgment
Chapter 25: Delphic Sibyl - Sistine Ceiling
Chapter 25: Two Early Noah Scenes from Sistine Chapel
Chapter 25: "Flipping the Fig"
Chapter 27: Disputation of the Holy Sacrament (aka Religion Wall)
Chapter 28: Bramante's Tempietto
Chapter 28: Botticelli's Birth of Venus
Chapter 29: St. Michael panels
Chapter 31: Portrait of a Cardinal Alidosi
Chapter 33: Battle of San Romano
Chapter 33: Raphael's Poetry Wall (aka Parnassus)
Chapter 36: Philosophy Wall, aka School of Athens
Chapter 39: Prophets and Sibyls from First Half of Sistine
Chapter 39: The Flood from Sistine
Chapter 39: Sacrifice of Noah - Sistine Ceiling
Chapter 39: Drunkenness of Noah - Sistine Ceiling
Chapter 39: Ignudi from first half of Sistine
Chapter 39: Temptation & Expulsion on the Sistine Ceiling
Chapter 39: Creation of Eve on the Sistine
Chapter 40: Completed Library
Chapter 41: Michelangelo as Heraclitus in School of Athens
Chapter 49: Ravenna Mosaics
Chapter 50: Expulsion of Heliodorus
Chapter 51: Portrait of Pope Julius II
Chapter 53: Christ Giving Keys to St. Peter
Chapter 55: Van Eyck's Marriage of Arnolfini
Chapter 55: Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling
Chapter 56: Michelangelo's Pieta
Chapter 57: Piero della Francesco
Chapter 57: Madonna della Seggiola, the tondo of Margherita Luti
Chapter 58: Triumph of Galatea
Chapter 59: Madonna of the Veil
Chapter 60: Mass at Bolsena
Chapter 62: Laocoön and His Sons
Chapter 63: Madonna of Humility
Chapter 63: Bindo Altoviti Portrait
Chapter 63: Catherine of Alexandria
Chapter 63: Madonna of the Goldfinch
Chapter 63: Self-Portrait
Chapter 63: Sistine Madonna
Chapter 64: Putti from Sistine Madonna
Epilogue: Transfiguration
Coda: Raising of Lazarus
Coda: La Fornarina
Author's Note: Margherita Luti Paintings
Author's Note: Head From Villa Farnesina

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