The Marriage of the Virgin (Raphael)
The Marriage of the Virgin, also known as Lo Sposalizio, is an oil painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Raphael. Completed in 1504 for the Franciscan church of San Francesco, Città di Castello, the painting depicts a marriage ceremony between Mary and Joseph. It changed hands several times before settling in 1806 at the Pinacoteca di Brera.
The Marriage of the Virgin (Raphael)
This version of the theme by Pietro Perugino is believed to have been Raphael's inspiration.
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, now generally known in English 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. Together with Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period.
Presumed portrait of Raphael
Raphael, The School of Athens
Raphael, Cardinal and Theological Virtues, 1511
Giovanni Santi, Raphael's father; Christ supported by two angels, c. 1490