Posted on 08/06/2020 4:10:15 PM PDT by mairdie
Italian Portraiture, including Raphael, to Early Venetian Lute Music
Art sleuths have created a 3D reconstruction of the face of Italian painter Raphael, solving an age-old mystery over his final resting place, Rome's Tor Vergata University said.
The artist, a child prodigy and part of a trinity of Renaissance greats along with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, died in 1520, aged only 37. A red rose graces his tomb in Rome's Pantheon all year round.
His body was exhumed in the 19th century, at which point a plaster cast of his skull was made. But experts were not sure the remains really belonged to Raphael, for the excavation also unearthed other full and partial skeletons.
...It found a clear match with the Raphael pictured in portraits by other artists in the period, as well as the artist's self-portraits
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He was the model for that period’s portrayals of Jesus?
Raphael's self portrait shows him in the back, behind his friend.
That was the style of the time. Also a time of a lot of religious portraits, so maybe images of Jesus got stuck into this period and never modernized.
When I was about 5, I remember seeing a print of Jesus at my grandma’s house that looked just like that.
I trust Raphael’s portraits of himself more than I trust people using forensics to try to reconstruct it. Things like noses and lip shapes are just guesses and they reconstruction looks very different then the known portraits of Raphael (two of which are here and look dead on similar, both different than the reconstruction in those details).
I agree with you completely. By painting such prominent, bulging eyes, he certainly wasn’t trying to idealize himself.
Raphael’s bittersweet 500th anniversary in Rome
WantedInRome | 4/6/2020
Posted on 04/06/2020 11:56:47 AM PDT by Borges
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