A Marble Horse on the Quirinal Hill [recto]

RaphaelWW-1513-279753

1513·red chalk and pen and brown ink, with stylus underdrawing and traces of leadpoint on laid paper·overall: 21.9 x 27.4 cm (8 5/8 x 10 13/16 in.)

Catalogue

Year: 1513
Medium: red chalk and pen and brown ink, with stylus underdrawing and traces of leadpoint on laid paper
Dimensions: overall: 21.9 x 27.4 cm (8 5/8 x 10 13/16 in.)
Collection: National Gallery of Art
Artist: Raphael

Artist

Raphael

Painting

A leading figure of the Italian High Renaissance, Raphael is known for his consummate expressions of the era’s Neoplatonic ideals. Effortlessly graceful and sublimely harmonious, his paintings marry serenity, beauty and clarity of form with authentic emotionality. His richly colored, perfectly balanced compositions, widely considered the pinnacle of technical achievement, have inspired rhapsodizing praise: the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky proclaimed his work “the greatest revelation of the human spirit,” while Pablo Picasso declared, “Leonardo da Vinci promises us heaven. Raphael gives it to us.”

Urbino, Italy

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