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Item Number: 115233
Title: Himmlischer Glanz : Raffael, Dürer und Grünewald malen die Madonna
Author: Henning, Andreas ; Arnold Nesselrath (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9783791351858
Description: München: Prestel, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 2011. 30cm., hardcover, 128pp., 75 color plates. Exhibition held at Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden. From the museum's website: Just under 500 years ago Raphael, the most celebrated painter of the Renaissance, painted the “Sistine Madonna” and the “Madonna di Foligno”. Both masterpieces probably stood together in his workshop. These two paintings are closely related. Raphael painted the large, more than 3-metre high altarpiece called the “Madonna di Foligno” in 1512, before receiving the commission to produce the “Sistine Madonna” from Pope Julius II in the same year. It is therefore highly probable that the two paintings stood together in Raphael’s workshop, and now they are being reunited for the first time. They are among the artist’s major works and are both forceful representations of a Marian apparition. The exhibition will also bring together further examples of representations of the Madonna, including a depiction of a Marian apparition by Cranach the Elder (Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main) as well as works by Dürer, Garofalo and Correggio from the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Dresden. During the same decade as Raphael produced these two great Madonnas, the tradition of depicting the Virgin culminated in artistically outstanding works north of the Alps as well. A superlative example in terms of both quality and content is the “Stuppach Madonna” by Matthias Grünewald, which along with the Isenheim Altarpiece is undoubtedly one of the artist’s foremost works. This unprecedented exhibition is being held to coincide with the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Germany at the end of September 2011. For this purpose, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and the Vatican Museums have entered into a special cooperation agreement. For the first time, and as an absolutely exceptional measure, Raphael’s large altarpiece entitled “Madonna di Foligno” will be leaving the Pinacoteca Vaticana specifically for this exhibition.
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