1508 Works: 1508 Architecture, 1508 Paintings, 1508 Plays, the Deposition, St Mary Magdalene, Taunton, San Rocco, Venice, Bovo-Bukh

Chapters: 1508 Architecture, 1508 Paintings, 1508 Plays, the Deposition, St Mary Magdalene, Taunton, San Rocco, Venice, Bovo-Bukh, the Tempest, Cathedral of the Archangel, the World and the Child, Tempi Madonna, Esterhazy Madonna, Niccolini-Cowper Madonna, Madonna Colonna. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 36. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Deposition (Deposizione Borghese) or The Entombment is an oil painting by the Italian High Renaissance painter Raphael. Signed and dated "Raphael Urbinas MDVII (1507)", the painting is in the Galleria Borghese in Rome. It is the central panel of a larger altarpiece commissioned by Atalanta Baglioni of Perugia in honor of her of fallen son, Grifonetto Baglioni. Like many works, it shares elements of the common subjects of the Deposition of Christ, the Lamentation of Christ, and the Entombment of Christ. In the early part of the 16th Century, violence among factions, mostly in the form of hand-to-hand combat, was relatively common in Perugia and other parts of Italy, such as Florence. There was an especially bloody uprising in which on the night of July 3, 1500, Grifonetto Baglioni and some angry members of the family conspired to murder much of the rest of the Baglioni family as they slept. According to Matarazzo, the chronicler of the family, following the bloodshed, Grifonettos mother Atalanta Baglioni refused to give her son refuge in her home and when he returned to the city he was confronted by Gianpaolo Baglioni, a family member who had survived the night by escaping over the roof tops. Atalanta changed her mind and rushed after her son, but arrived only in time to see her son being killed by Gianpaolo and his men. A few years later, Atalanta commissioned Raphael for an altarpiece for Grifonetto in the family chapel in San Francesco a...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3061881