"Here is that Raphael by whom, as long as he lived, Mother Nature feared to be surpassed by him and when she died she feared to die with him."

(epigraph from Raphael's tomb in the Pantheon in Rome)

The 'MONTE LINAS' Library System

on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of his death, presents:

Raphael

Ihe divine Painter 1520 -2020

 

multimedia bibliographic exhibition

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Cammin Breve : the life of Raphael illustrated by himself / Riccardo Balsamo-Crivelli. - Milan : Hoepli, 1952.

The text recounts the life of the famous painter illustrated with 67 engravings and plates by the artist.

 

 

 

 

The geniuses of painting : Raffaello. - Milan : Mondadori, 1980

Raphael up close, his masterpieces, the secrets of his art and what the great have written about him.

 

 

    

 

Reading Raphael : The School of Athens and its pre-text / Glenn W. Most . Turin : Einaudi, c2001

In 1510, Raphael frescoed the so-called 'School of Athens' on a wall of the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican. This work has influenced the last five centuries of our culture, involving eminent scholars and art critics in repeated but unsatisfactory attempts at interpretation. Glenn Most, with surprising and historically based reasoning, has come to the conclusion that the source of this admirable fresco is to be found in a passage from Plato's 'Protagoras', in which we find the same interpretive elements and grandiosity. However, the author is convinced that the 'School of Athens' is something much more than a simple pictorial transposition of Plato's text and, through a precise and brilliant analysis, he discovers in the fresco complex and erudite references to the Neo-Platonic philosophy of the time, as well as insistent references to Etruscan elements, in accordance with the prevailing taste of the time. These details allow for a new and more complete reading of Raphael's work and lead us to question the interpretative limits of such an investigation and the possibility of applying it to other paintings.

 

L'opera completa di Raffaello / Presentation by Michele Prisco ; critical and philological apparatus by Pierluigi De Vecchi. - Milan : Rizzoli, 1971

Documentation on the man and the artist. Catalogue of works with chronological and iconographic list of all paintings by Raphael Sanzio or attributed to him.

 

 

 

Raffaello / edited by Adolfo Venturi ; text updated by Lionello Venturi. - Milan : Mondadori, 1952.

An in-depth biography of Raphael and an accurate description of the genesis of his major works.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Raffaello / texts by Marco Albertario. - Milan : Electa, c1994

Aimed at an attentive but non-specialist audience, this volume presents a monographic summary of Raphael's life and work. The brief introductory essay examines the circumstances that determined the birth and development of the person Raphael.

 

 

 

 

 

Raphael / by Attilio Baratti. - Rome : Pauline Editions, 1959   

Attilio Baratti narrates the life of Raphael the man and painter, his work, his spirit.

 

 

 

 

 

Raffaello / Clemente Fusero. - Milan : Dall'Oglio, printed 1983

The 500th anniversary of Raphael's birth has given rise to a great fervour of commemorative initiatives and conferences not only in Italy, but all over the world. This biography admirably highlights not only the artist's work, but also the character of the man, overcoming not a few difficulties, mainly due to the lack of illuminating documents, with the exception of the few surviving letters, and revealing events.

 

 

Raffaello. - Milan : Fratelli Fabbri Editori, 1976     

Life and works of the famous artist in two illustrated booklets.

 

 

 

 

Raphael : Grace and Beauty. - Geneva-Milan : Skira, 2001

An original thematic monograph focusing on one of Raphael's favourite subjects, the portrait, which embodies in an exemplary manner the typical ideals of the Italian Renaissance: grace and beauty. The volume presents a selection of Raphael's extraordinary portraits, including famous masterpieces such as La Fornarina, La Velata, La Dama col liocorno, Le tre Grazie, Il ritratto di Baldassarre Castiglione and the Doppio ritratto di Andrea Navagero e Agostino Beazzano, as well as other paintings and drawings: an event that covers the entire span of Raphael's career through some thirty masterpieces from the world's major museums.

 

Raphael : the sublime renaissance / edited by Giorgio Dell'Arti

Youth: the prodigies of a pupil. In Tuscany painting Madonnas. At work in the Vatican. Under the sign of Eros. The power of the powerful.

 

 

 

 

Raphael : the pictorial work / Konrad Oberhuber. - Milan : Electa, c1999

Konrad Oberhuber analyses the pictorial oeuvre of Raphael Sanzio, from the best known to the less 'explored' paintings. The text concludes with a catalogue of the works, an essential bibliography and an index of names. The volume is a special edition of the text published in 1999.

 

 

Raffaello nelle stanze / Text by D. Redig De Campos. - Florence : Martello-Giunti, c1983

In 1508 Pope Julius II, then at the height of his glory, had the Sistine Chapel decorated by Michelangelo and his private flats by Raphael, creating two of the greatest works in the entire history of art in just a few years. While Michelangelo focuses on the creation of man, Raphael evokes the great Mediterranean tradition, from Homer to his own time, in the Stanza della Segnatura.

 

 

Rome : Michelangelo, Raffaello, Caravaggio, Bernini, Borromini / edited by Livia Velani, Giovanni Grego. - Florence Milan : Scala RCS periodici, 2003

Guide to the monuments and works of Raphael in Rome.

 

 

 

 

Look into my eyes / Giovanni Montanaro. - Milan : Feltrinelli, 2017

A portrait of formidable grace and, in the background, conspiracies, slander and the mystery of a ring that appears and disappears: the legendary love story between Raphael and the Fornarina.

 

 

 

 

 

 

SITOGRAPHY:

 

VIDEOGRAPHY:

 

The 10 most famous works:

 

   - ST. SEBASTIAN

 

 

- THE MARRIAGE OF THE VIRGIN

 

 

- THE LADY WITH THE UNICORN

 

 

- THE BAGLIONI PALACE or BORGHESE DEPOSITION

 

 

- THE MADONNA OF THE GOLDFINCH

 

 

- THE SCHOOL OF ATHENS

 

 

- TRIUMPH OF GALATEA

 

 

- THE MADONNA OF THE CHAIR

 

 

- PORTRAIT OF BALDASSAR CASTIGLIONE

 

 

- TRANSFIGURATION