Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome05 March - 02 June 2020
Scuderie del Quirinale presents, from March 5 to June 2 in collaboration with Gallerie degli Uffizi, the exhibition RAFFAELLO, curated by Marzia Faietti and Matteo Lafranconi with the contribution of Vincenzo Farinella and Francesco Paolo Di Teodoro.
A monographic exhibition with over two hundred masterpieces among paintings, drawings and comparative works, dedicated to Raffaello on the 500th anniversary of his death, which took place in Rome on April 6, 1520 at the age of just 37 years old.
The exhibition, which finds inspiration particularly in the Raffaello's fundamental Roman period which consecrated him as an artist of incomparable and legendary greatness, tells his whole complex and articulated creative path with richness of detail through a vast corpus of works, for the first time exposed all together.
Many institutions involved have contributed to enrich the exhibition with masterpieces from their collections: among these, in Italy, the National Galleries of Ancient Art, the National Art Gallery of Bologna, the Museum and the Real Bosco di Capodimonte, the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, the Brescia Museums Foundation, and abroad, in addition to the Vatican Museums, the Louvre, the National Gallery of London, the Prado Museum, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Albertina in Vienna, the British Museum, the Royal Collection, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lille.
A number of must-see paintings by the iconic Italian artist will be showcased:
“Portrait of Baldassarre Castiglione”
and “Self-portrait with a Friend” will be on loan from the Louvre,
the “Madonna of the Grand Duke”
"Portrait of Pope Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de Medicis and Luigi de Rossi"
"Portrait of Pope Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de Medicis and Luigi de Rossi"
and the wonderful “Woman with a Veil” from the Uffizi Gallery,
the “Alba Madonna” from the National Gallery in Washington,
the “Saint Cecilia” from the Bologna Picture Gallery
and the “Madonna of the Rose” from the Prado Museum.
