Raphael · 1504
The Marriage of the Virgin
Raphael
The Marriage of the Virgin
1504
Raphael Sanzio's 'The Marriage of the Virgin' ('Lo Sposalizio della Vergine', 1504), painted when he was only twenty-one, is an early masterpiece in which the rite takes place before an octagonal Bramantesque tempietto whose precise perspective carries the eye to a distant vanishing point. Just emerging from Perugino's workshop and about to leave for Florence, Raphael already commands the architectural space of the High Renaissance. It is a signature work of the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan.
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