The Canigiani Holy Family
The original, as its museum records it
Every line above is reproduced from the holding institution’s own catalogue entry, which is linked. Where their title, date or attribution differs from ours, theirs is the one printed here.
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About this painting
Someone once tried to scratch heaven off this panel. The angels would not come off, so the sky was painted flat blue.
The Canigiani, Florentine bankers, commissioned it for a home altar. Joseph stands over the mothers on his staff, marvelling, Vasari wrote, that so old a woman as Elizabeth should have a child; his raised place is Joseph's rising cult after 1500. The Baptist beside Christ is Florence's patron, and in such a house a Florentine boy.
That was in the Elector Palatine's gallery in the 1750s. The angels came back in 1982, more than two centuries late.
Sources: Web Gallery of Art, 'Raphael's Canigiani Holy Family' · Pierluigi De Vecchi, Raffaello, Rizzoli, Milano, 1975 (as cited in Italian Wikipedia entry) · Google Arts & Culture, 'The Holy Family' (Alte Pinakothek partner story) · Alte Pinakothek object record / dossier commission summary · Alessandro Conti, Storia del restauro e della conservazione delle opere d'arte, Electa, Milano, 2002 (as cited in Italian Wikipedia entry) · Cathleen Hoeniger, 'Raphael's Religious Paintings and Their Early Restorations: Devotional Attention or Aesthetic Appreciation?', CeROArt, HS (2013) · Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, 'Life of Raphael' (1568), de Vere trans. · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Piero di Cosimo, 'The Young Saint John the Baptist', object record
And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was subject to them. And his mother kept all these words in her heart.
Luke 2:51 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 9,894 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.