Raffaello Sanzio (part 1)
" very sure it can be said that the holders of the dowry of Raphael are not just men, but of mortals " Giorgio Vasari
What can I say?
I am in love with Raphael.
6aprile was born on Good Friday 1843 in Urbino
died on his birthday in 1520.
or why we believe will be the first, as is clear from the title, many posts about Raphael, I do not want to make a monograph but surely there will be constant references. Instead of a long post a topic that no one finishes reading, the better to be re and sliding.
But because I like Raffaello? His Madonnas are more beautiful than the other, (* will post separately on Madonnas) and it's not all the paintings end up 500eschi
shirts, bags, TV and merchandising various of the world not? If you can eg
evenings a compliment ... as he once told my professor of Italian literature: 'Dante is one of the few who has forever the privilege of being mentioned too and those who do not even know who he was.' And apparently the two cherubim of thoughtful 'Madonna S instinct' unaware they have this luck ... Anyway I was saying, because I like Raffaello ? Several reasons. Without using words as a true art criticism, or courtly encyclopedic ... I find, like, smooth, clean, elegant ... even in the scenes of 'movement' as the 'San Michele, which break through Satan', or St 'George defeating the dragon ' (1504-06) everything is in order. (* will separate post about San Giorgio) also Renoire On the other hand, on returning from
or traveling to Italy in 1881, as Raphael said, I do not I draw! So try to change his style and to emphasize the outlines of the figures (see umbrellas).
to say that I like anyway Renoire before and after galvanizing Italian! Okay Then I remember a particular linked to Raphael. During the period when I lived in Bologna, lived in Porta Castiglione, and I invite you to see 'live' Who was that gentleman in the magnetic 'Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione ' 1 514. And what of 'The Three Graces'? Work to which I too wanted to make a modest but no less enigmatic tribute. http://alessiaromeo.blogspot.com/search/label/fotografia
Who will interpret the interpreters as desire. As the gentleman, the exhibition in 2005 in which I exposed, look, he turns to his wife by the arm and says: "Poor Rafael! It is turning in his grave! I was there just over the back and of course no one knew I were the author, and of course I did not say anything. As a colleague of mine at the university looked at it for a while 'in silence and then said with a smile: that irony! Brava Ale! ... However you say it Well with the three have made them all in one way or another, yes Okay, but I like those of Raphael, with nothing removed all'insostenibile lightness of marble of Canova. Especially I like better since I 'discovered' what were in fact the three Graces and why have those three apples in his hand, the so-called apples of Aphrodite. The three gauzes I found to be: able to give, to know them, to return.
I once saw by chance one afternoon in a TV movie about his life, old, black and white, and I was impressed that the phrase Raphael says to his disciple, on the other apprentices there were evidence to draw on evidence. The disciple asked for permission to send everyone home early today, and he says yes, let them enjoy the May! ' ... The May! ... It's so elegant! And I since that time whenever I use that phrase gave me a tone I use it! Obviously not think there is no historical proof that he has actually said this phrase at the time, fuguriamoci, phrase by tuti day, but the fact that I have heard from the mouth of the enfant prodige for I buy the absolute value of historical phrase! In the film, then you also talked about the fact that you say that Isabella d'Este (respectable woman that I visited the widow's room at Castello di Mantova) was in love with him, and continued to ask for a portrait, but He applied more elegantly. Then she is jealous kidnap the bride, the famous 'Fornarina'-Margaret, "and other things. In short, the film I liked it but I've never been able to find it anywhere. ' We know from Vasari that the artist lived with a girl who dearly loved, which decided to separate, for religious reasons only shortly before his death' ( http://www.exibart .com/notizia.asp/idnotizia/4285 ) but I do not remember where (and I apologize if that phrase back often in my speeches), I read that he aspired to become a Cardinal, but that was promised to a girl of rank say (not that Fornari Margaret was the daughter of a baker), with which but always put off the decision of the wedding on the pretext of work for these reasons: Fornarina and desire to become a Cardinal. Do not forget Isabella d'Este, jealous as a magpie ... in short, was a little 'beauty of the country goes! The only stain, and I remember exactly where I read it this time because there's been malissssimo ('The Cortogiane Oneste' book about the history of prostitutes in the 500 and 600 in Rome and Venice) said that he, like all artists, and how all of the time used to go from so-called honest courtesans ... namely the young ladies in charge. Here we have our main no no! There was! ... Other than cardinal!