Two Raphael works at the center of Beijing exhibition

By in Qi | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-07-14 15:23
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Saint Luke the Evangelist Paints the Virgin in the Presence of Raphael, an oil work attributed to Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino is on show. [Photo by Lin Qi/China Daily]

In the former painting, Raphael painted himself with the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus, and Saint Luke the Evangelist, conveying a strong sense of purity and sanctity. Moreover, one can compare Raphael's self-portrait in this painting to another self-portrait of himself in a reproduction of the masterpiece, The School of Athens, on show.

The exhibition also unveils a panoramic view of the time Raphael grew from an apprentice to a prominent painter and architect. It displays documents of Raphael's architectural designs to tell the formation of aesthetics during the Italian Renaissance. It also gathers paintings by Raphael's contemporaries to provide a glimpse of the standards and philosophies to which painters at the time lived up to.

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