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The Sistine Madonna
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The “Sistine Madonna” is one of most famous Renaissance artworks in the world. Raphael painted the altarpiece in 1512/13 in Rome. It was commissioned by Pope Julius II, who send the picture as a gift to the monastery church San Sisto in Piacenza (a small town southeast of Milan). The open curtains reveal a vision: The Virgin Mary is carrying the Infant Jesus from Heaven down to Earth. St Sixtus is kneeling on the left side, on the ride side St Barbara. Raphael included both of them in the painting because they were venerated at the high altar in the church. During the final stage of his painting process the artist invented the two cherubs at the bottom of the “Sistine Madonna”. After two years of negotiations Augustus III, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, acquired in 1754 the “Sistine Madonna” for Dresden’s gallery. At the end of World War II the Soviet ‘trophy brigades’ removed the painting to Moscow. Only in 1956 returned the “Sistine Madonna” to Dresden’s Old Masters Picture Gallery.
Dresden State Art Collections. Old Masters Picture Gallery
Title: The Sistine Madonna
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The “Sistine Madonna” is one of most famous Renaissance artworks in the world.
Raphael painted the altarpiece in 1512/13 in Rome.
It was commissioned by Pope Julius II, who send the picture as a gift to the monastery church San Sisto in Piacenza (a small town southeast of Milan).
The open curtains reveal a vision: The Virgin Mary is carrying the Infant Jesus from Heaven down to Earth.
St Sixtus is kneeling on the left side, on the ride side St Barbara.
Raphael included both of them in the painting because they were venerated at the high altar in the church.
During the final stage of his painting process the artist invented the two cherubs at the bottom of the “Sistine Madonna”.
After two years of negotiations Augustus III, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, acquired in 1754 the “Sistine Madonna” for Dresden’s gallery.
At the end of World War II the Soviet ‘trophy brigades’ removed the painting to Moscow.
Only in 1956 returned the “Sistine Madonna” to Dresden’s Old Masters Picture Gallery.
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