The Small Cowper Madonna
The original, as its museum records it
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About this painting
He stands on her lap, his arms round her neck, and neither of them is looking at the other. The National Gallery of Art reads the pair as "tied by interlocking gestures and unified by their shared gaze to a vision of the child's future."
Behind them the hill town rises to a small church. Fern Rusk Shapley's Gallery catalogue thought it probably San Bernardino, near Urbino, the town Raphael was born in.
The Brera, which holds that church's altarpiece, records that Federico da Montefeltro built the church to house his own grave.
Sources: National Gallery of Art open-data repository, object id 1196, data/objects.csv · David Alan Brown, "Raphael's Small Cowper Madonna and Madonna of the Meadow: Their Technique and Leonardo Sources," Artibus et Historiae, vol. 4, no. 8 (1983), pp. 9-26 · Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 850694 · COVE academic-teaching essay, citing David Alan Brown · Dossier symbolism note (direct visual examination of NGA-sourced master image) · National Gallery of Art, 'Italian Renaissance Learning Resources', "Raphael's Madonnas: Full of Grace". · Smithsonian National Postal Museum, 'Raphael, Small Cowper Madonna'. · National Gallery of Art, Washington, 'History of the Collection'. · Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, Piero della Francesca, 'San Bernardino Altarpiece'. · The National Gallery, London, artist record: Raphael (1483-1520).
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 16,521 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.