{Italian High Renaissance – Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo [continued (6)]}[28th April 1991]

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‘Raphael’s frescoes in the Stanza d’Elidoro (1512-15[ce]) already reveal Mannerist tensions in “The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple” and an almost Baroque concern with light and shade in “The Liberation of St. Peter”. The succeeding rooms were almost exclusively decorated by assistants. It is only in such works as “The Triumph of Galatea” (1511[ce]; Villa Farnesina, Rome), the “Sistine Madonna” (1513[ce]?; Gemaldagalerie, Dresden), or Raphael’s final unfinished work, the “Transfiguration” (1517[ce]; Vatican Museum) that he can be seen to move towards a more relaxed, more personal, and deeply moving reconsideration of High Renaissance ideals.

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* – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 25:348]

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