Museum Exhibition
Catalogue of Works
Raphael: Sublime Poetry
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
23 documented works
Donatello
Madonna and Child
15th century
Figures: terracotta, polychromed and gilded; later background: wood, painted to represent brocade; frame: carved and painted, mouldings gilt
Overall: 30 × 20 1/2 in. (76.2 × 52.1 cm)
View at museumRaphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
ca. 1504
Oil and gold on wood
Main panel, overall 67 7/8 x 67 7/8 in. (172.4 x 172.4 cm), painted surface 66 3/4 x 66 1/2 in. (169.5 x 168.9 cm); lunette, overall 29 1/2 x 70 7/8 in. (74.9 x 180 cm), painted surface 25 1/2 x 67 1/2 in. (64.8 x 171.5 cm)
View at museumMarcantonio Raimondi|Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)
A plague scene at right, a man at left holding a torch illuminating part of the scene at left, ill people at the right
ca. 1515–16
Engraving (heavily reworked)
Sheet: 7 13/16 × 9 3/4 in. (19.9 × 24.7 cm)
View at museumAntonio Lafreri|Anonymous
Statues of the Dioscuri at the Quirinal, Rome
1546
Engraving
sheet: 20 1/4 x 14 3/8 in. (51.5 x 36.5 cm)
View at museumLeonardo da Vinci
Compositional Sketches for the Virgin Adoring the Christ Child, with and without the Infant St. John the Baptist; Diagram of a Perspectival Projection (recto); Slight Doodles (verso)
1480–85
Silverpoint, partly reworked by the artist with pen and dark brown ink on pink prepared paper; lines ruled with metalpoint (recto); pen and brown ink (verso)
7 5/8 x 6 3/8 in. (19.3 x 16.2 cm)
View at museumMarcantonio Raimondi|Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)
Neptune calming the tempest which Aeolus raised against Aeneas' fleet from Book I of the Aeneid
ca. 1515–16
Engraving
Sheet: 16 5/8 x 12 3/4 in. (42.3 x 32.4 cm)
View at museumMarcantonio Raimondi|Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)
The Judgment of Paris; he is sitting at left with Venus, Juno and Pallas Athena, a winged victory above; in the upper section the Sun in his chariot preceeded by Castor and Pollux on horseback; at lower right two river gods and a naiad above whom Jupiter, an eagle, Ganymede, Diana and another Goddess
ca. 1510–20
Engraving
Sheet: 11 7/16 x 17 3/16 in. (29.1 x 43.7 cm)
View at museumRoman
Marble sarcophagus fragment
mid-2nd century CE
Marble, Luni and Pentelic
Other (reconstructed): 38 1/8 in. × 8 3/4 in. × 46 7/8 in. (96.8 × 22.2 × 119.1 cm)
View at museumMarcantonio Raimondi|Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)
The Massacre of the Innocents
ca. 1512–13
Engraving
11 1/16 x 16 15/16 in. (28.1 x 43.0 cm)
View at museumRaphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)
The Agony in the Garden
ca. 1504
Oil on wood
9 1/2 × 11 3/8 in. (24.1 × 28.9 cm)
View at museumFra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)
The Birth of the Virgin
1467
Tempera and oil on wood
57 x 37 7/8 in. (144.8 x 96.2 cm)
View at museumAnonymous|Antonio Lafreri
Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: House of Raphael
1549
Engraving
sheet: 13 3/8 x 19 5/16 in. (34 x 49 cm) plate: 9 5/8 x 15 3/8 in. (24.5 x 39.1 cm)
View at museumAntonio Lafreri|Anonymous
Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Papal Benediction
16th century
Engraving and etching
sheet: 15 15/16 x 22 1/4 in. (40.5 x 56.5 cm)
View at museumLuca Signorelli (Luca d'Egidio di Luca di Ventura)
Madonna and Child
ca. 1505–7
Oil and gold on wood
20 1/4 x 18 3/4 in. (51.4 x 47.6 cm)
View at museumAgostino Veneziano (Agostino dei Musi)
Saint Peter's Basilica
dated 1517
Engraving
7 11/16 in. (19.5 cm) diameter
View at museumRaphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)
Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist; upper left, Study for the Right Arm of the Infant Saint John; upper right, Study for Drapery (recto); Study of a Nude Male Figure (verso)
ca. 1506–7
Red chalk (recto); pen and brown ink (verso)
8 13/16 x 6 1/4 in. (22.4 x 15.8 cm)
View at museumLuca della Robbia
Virgin and Child in a niche
ca. 1460
Glazed terracotta with gilt and painted details
Overall (confirmed): 18 5/8 × 15 1/4 × 3 1/2 in., 29 lb. (47.3 × 38.7 × 8.9 cm, 13.2 kg)
View at museumPerugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci)
Study of a Kneeling Youth and of the Head of Another
1500
Metalpoint on pale pink-beige prepared paper
8 11/16 x 4 1/2 in. (22 x 11.5 cm)
View at museumPerugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci)
Landscape (recto); Landscape (verso)
1489–90
Brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, on gray-green prepared paper (recto); pen and brown ink on unprepared off-white paper (verso)
8 1/16 × 11 in. (20.4 × 28 cm)
View at museumRaphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)
Studies of the Christ Child
1513–14
Red chalk
Sheet: 8 5/8 x 6 9/16 in. (22 x 16.7 cm)
View at museumRaphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)
Lucretia
1508–10
Pen and brown ink over black chalk, partially incised with a stylus (recto); rubbed with black chalk for transfer (verso)
15-5/8 x 11-1/2 in. (39.7 x 29.2 cm)
View at museumByzantine
Portable Icon with the Virgin Eleousa
early 1300s
Miniature mosaic set in wax on wood panel, with gold, multicolored stones, and gilded copper
Overall: 4 7/16 x 3 3/8 x 1/2 in. (11.2 x 8.6 x 1.3 cm)
View at museumAntonio Lafreri|Anonymous
Reconstruction of the Pantheon in Rome, seen from the side, cut away to reveal the interior
1553
Engraving
sheet: 13 5/8 x 18 5/8 in. (34.6 x 47.3 cm)
View at museum