Madonna Solly
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| Madonna Solly |
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| Raphael , 1502/1503 |
| Oil on poplar wood |
| 52 × 38 cm |
| Berlin picture gallery |
The Madonna Solly is one of the earliest paintings by Raphael .
The reading Maria with the child is also called Madonna Solly after her previous owner Edward Solly . The picture was taken while Raphael was still working in Pietro Perugino 's workshop , shortly after he had carried out his first important commission with the large altarpiece of Sant'Agostino in Città di Castello . He took over the composition of the picture from his teacher. For the Christ Child, he probably used a cardboard box that Perugino himself used several times. But in contrast to Perugino, Raffael also succeeds in making visible a human, love-based relationship between mother and child.
Raffael used the motif of Mary reading more often in the following, for example in the closely related Madonna Norton in Pasadena ( Norton Simon Museum ), the Madonna Conestabile in St. Petersburg ( Hermitage ), the Madonna with the Goldfinch in Florence ( Galleria degli Uffizi ) and the Madonna Colonna in Berlin (Gemäldegalerie). A preliminary drawing for the picture is in the Musée du Louvre in Paris.
The picture only became known when the Royal Museum in Berlin took over the Solly collection in 1821. Raphael's authorship has never been doubted since it was discovered. They only disagree on dating. It varies between 1500 and 1504, with modern research preferring a date to the years 1502/03. In 1952 Roberto Longhi published a second, contemporary version of the picture, which he considered the first version of the Madonna Solly by hand. This was in an Italian private collection in 1961, but is ignored by most authors.
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. They brought it to the General Art Collection Point in Wiesbaden . It was only returned to Berlin in 1956, where it was 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 .