The Ecstasy of St. Cecilia
1516 · oil from panel transfrerred to canvas
Dimensions (136 x 220 cm)
Collection: Art Whisperer
The St. Cecilia Altarpiece was completed in his later years, around 1516-1517, the painting depicts Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of musicians and Church music, listening to a choir of angels in the company of St. Paul, St. John the Evangelist, St. Augustine and Mary Magdalene. Commissioned for a church in Bologna, the painting now hangs there in the Pinacoteca Nazionale, or National Painting Gallery. According to Vasari the musical instruments strewn about Cecilia's feet were not painted by Raphael, but by his student, Giovanni da Udine.[1]
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The Ecstasy of St. Cecilia (1516) by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino), oil from panel transfrerred to canvas, from the Art Whisperer collection.
About Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
(March 28 or April 6, 1483 – April 6, 1520) Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur.
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