Madonna Colonna
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| Madonna Colonna |
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| Raffael , around 1507–1508 |
| Oil on poplar wood |
| 52 × 38 cm |
| Gemäldegalerie (Berlin) |
The Madonna Colonna is a painting from the late Florentine period by Raphael .
The reading Maria with the child is also called Madonna Colonna after her previous owner . It was painted at the end of Raphael's stay in Florence and corresponds fully to his style at the time. The Madonna Colonna represents a stage in a digitally created image composition that Raffael implemented in various forms and of which there are further examples with the Bridgewater Madonna in Edinburgh ( Scottish National Gallery ) and the Madonna d'Orléans in Chantilly ( Musée Condé ).
An early preliminary study is on a drawing in London ( The British Museum ), which also shows a sketch of the Bridgewater Madonna . Two further drawings in Vienna ( Albertina ) show a further development of the two compositions.
Repeated attempts have been made to identify the Madonna Colonna with a Madonna mentioned by Vasari , which was started by Raphael and completed by Ridolfo Ghirlandaio . This assumption is rejected by most researchers today. Theses that Vasari meant the so-called La belle jardinière , which is now in Paris ( Louvre ), have also not been confirmed. X-ray examinations of the Belle jardinière have since shown that it was not supplemented by a second hand.
Provenance
The picture was successively in the Salviati collections and the Collezione Duchessa Maria Colonna Lante della Rovere before it was purchased by the Prussian state for the Royal Museum in Berlin in 1827 . Although Raphael's authorship is undisputed, individual researchers have repeatedly suspected that an assistant was involved in the execution since the 19th century.
The picture was on display from the time it was acquired by the Royal Museum until 1939. Then it was moved to the Flakturm Friedrichshain. As the fighting of the Second World War drew closer and closer to Berlin, the picture was moved to the Kaiseroda-Merkers potash mine in Thuringia in the spring of 1945 , where it fell into the hands of the Americans. These made it to the General Art Collecting Point in Wiesbaden . It was only returned to Berlin in 1956, where it was permanently exhibited in the Dahlem Museum from 1956 to 1997. Since 1998 it has been shown in the new picture gallery at the Kulturforum in Berlin.
literature
- Louis Hertig (introduction), Pierluigi de Vecci (scientific appendix): The complete works of Raffael (= classic of art ). Kunstkreis Luzern et al., Luzern et al. 1966
- Gemäldegalerie Berlin (Hrsg.): Catalog of the paintings from the 13th - 18th centuries. Gemäldegalerie Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin-Dahlem 1975.
- Sylvia Ferino Pagden, Maria Antonietta Zancan: Raffaello. Catalogo completo dei dipinti (= I gigli dell'arte 9). Cantini, Florence 1989, ISBN 88-7737-101-3 .