Raphael · 1512
The Sistine Madonna
Posters from $15 · Canvas from $39
Raphael's serene altarpiece — the Madonna and Child floating between Saint Sixtus and Saint Barbara, drapes parting like a stage curtain, two cherubs leaning on a ledge below. Those cherubs alone are among the most reproduced images in art.
Up to 12 × 16 in · portrait
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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The story of The Sistine Madonna
The Sistine Madonna, also called the Madonna di San Sisto, is an oil painting by the Italian artist Raphael. The painting was commissioned in 1512 by Pope Julius II for the church of San Sisto, Piacenza, and probably executed c. 1513–1514. The canvas was one of the last Madonnas painted by Raphael. Giorgio Vasari called it "a truly rare and extraordinary work".
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Raphael
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, now generally known in English as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.
All Raphael prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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