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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