Raphael And His Flawless Madonna

Raphael loved women very much, especially beautiful women.

In 1514, when he finished the "Poseidon Galatea", the Cassidy Lyon count asked him exclamatorily:" Where on earth did you find such beautiful models?" Raphael wrote back that:" I have to seek for many fair faces in order to draw the very beautiful women. However, particularly amazing and stunning women were not so many, so I have to draw follow the certain thinking in my mind. "

One day, Raphael was taking a walk in the garden leisurely and comfortably, then he suddenly caught a sight of a beautiful and charming girl pollarding the tree branches in the colorful and showy flowers. Raphael was immediately and deeply attracted by her image. He picked the painting brush and created the "The Madonna in the garden." This was a garden's daughter, so it was also called "The beautiful female garden."

About the model of "The Madonna on the throne", there were many complicated and confusing parlances. Raphael's craziness for painting made people laugh when they knew that the sketch was drew on the pie and bucket.

According to the legend, Raphael saw a beautiful young woman holding a lovely child at a banquet. The warm and happy family relationships inspired his creation, he thought that:" This is the Madonna of my heart." He looked around but could not find a paper so he picked a pie on the table and drew the sketch quickly.

The second version of the Madonna was that: one day, Raphael came from Vatican and saw a young woman carrying an adorable child.

"This woman is really beautiful when she is looking at his child fondly." So he immediately hid and observed secretly.

The woman found that Raphael was looking at her attentively soon, she hugged the child gently and gave a peaceful smile. Raphael was so excited and picked the charcoal as painting brush, but where was the paper? There was only an empty bucket, so he turned the bucket over hastily and drew sketch on the bottom of the bucket just in order to capture the charming smile.

The third version of the Madonna was Raphael's lover - Fuernalin.

The identity and name of Raphael's secret lover were like a mystery and made people argue ceaselessly. Some people said she was a prostitute, "Fuernalin" was Italian and the mean was the baker's daughter. Therefore, Fuernalin was not her real name. But it was also said that, Fuernalin was a common nickname the Roman called their lovers at that time. And some people even field studied ancient books and pointed that Marga Lillian was her real name.

Raphael, this famous Italian painter who was known for the Madonna, created countless Madonna, for instance, the Madonna of the pinks, the Alba Madonna and the Madonna of the meadow. And still Madonna of the Goldfinch, also the Sistine Madonna and so on.

Raphael transformed the image of Madonna in the religious themes into a secular and graceful human mother successfully. Therefore, he always showed the innocence and goodness of the girls or song the praises of mother love in society through the Madonna image under his painting brush.

We see the garden of his art. They are like joyful poetry songs one after another. Perhaps, Raphael is enjoying the happy days in his real world at this moment.

The Creation Background of The Madonna Of The Chair

The Madonna of The Chair was created by Italian painter Raphael. His Madonna paintings are his artistic monument. All the perfect qualities of his Madonna stem from his keen insight of the folk women. Three characters in this painting including Madonna, the child and John are portrayed more lively than the previous works.

People think of Raphael's Sistine Madonna as the top female work. This painting can be regarded as the peak of Madonna paintings. But people cannot help asking, why the artist put three vivid images in this rounded box which has rarely clearance inside? In 1820, Italy had a Hermit Legend. From it, there was a rumor said that once upon a time, a noble person encountered wolves in the forest and he was very quick-witted to climb up the tree for survival. Later he was rescued by the daughter of a restaurant and better treated. Over a night, he left the woods in the next morning. And he predicted the oak tree and the girl that saved him would be good forever. After some years, oak trees were cut down for the hotel wine bottles; the girl was married and gave birth to two sons. One day, Raphael passed by here and saw the angel-like babies and young beautiful mother. In Raphael's eyes, nothing could be comparable to the theme of mother. Then his painting interest arose spontaneously. But there was no painting tool at present. He grabbed eagerly clay tablets on the ground, and painted these three people on the bottom of oak barrel at the hotel door. This is the origin of The Madonna Of The Chair, which seems to be true with the hermit's prophecy.

After all, legend is the legend. From the art history, such legend lacks of historical evidence. Because Hermit Legend was compiled in 1820, thus it could not be used as historical fact. Moreover, the legendary at the beginning of the 19th century is a product of the climax of romantic idea of literature in Italy. Combination of Hermit Legend and Raphael's masterpieces 300 years ago only accords with a part of people's worship. Besides, The Madonna of the Chair is not the painter's extemporization work. From the virgin's scarves, embroidery fabric with spike shawls and red jacket, blue cloak, and costume folk pattern, we can know the painter has profoundly observed the Italian folk images of women.

Raphael carefully puts three characters in a small round box. In order to show the parent-child affection, the layout is decorated very carefully. The child sits on his mother's right knee, but the left knee will be very difficult to deal with. If according to the actual appearance, then John will be squeezed out. The artist uses the pleats in his left knee to weaken its visual effect, let John take a position. John puts a symbolic crutch under his left elbow, thus he is not only an ordinary crutch, but also predicts Jesus will move towards the world as a pastor. The end of this stick is a simple cross, implying that John will be in the wilderness and repeatedly calls Jesus. It also implies the future of Jesus being suffered from cross. In Christian iconography, red generally symbolizes God's love, and blue symbolizes the truth of god.