Raphael and the Antique

Name: Raphael and the Antique
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SKU: 9781789141504
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By Claudia La Malfa

Series: Renaissance Lives

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Raphael and the Antique explores the Renaissance artist Raphael's remarkable career, tracing his journey from central Italy through Perugia, Siena, Florence, and ultimately Rome. Claudia La Malfa highlights Raphael's profound engagement with ancient Roman art—classical sculptures, reliefs, and paintings—that deeply influenced his celebrated classical style. The book delves into his draughtsmanship, inventive reinterpretation of antique models, and his evolving artistic philosophy, which he pursued until his untimely death at 37 in 1520.
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This book is ideal for art historians, Renaissance enthusiasts, students of classical art, and readers interested in the intersection of ancient art and Renaissance creativity.

A full account of Renaissance artist Raphael’s prodigious yet short-lived career.

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The Renaissance artist Raphael is known for his extraordinary frescoes, his sublime Madonnas, devotional altarpieces, architectural designs, and his inventive prints and tapestries. It was his use of ancient Roman models—classical sculptures, reliefs, and paintings—that formed his much admired classical style and influenced the styles of many later artists.

In Raphael and the Antique, Claudia La Malfa gives a full account of Raphael's prodigious career, from central Italy when he was 17 years old, to Perugia, Siena, and Florence, where he first met with Leonardo and Michelangelo, to Rome where he became one of the most feted artists of the Renaissance. This book focuses and highlights Raphael's re-invention of classical models, his draughtsmanship, and his concept of art, which he pursued and was still striving to perfect at the time of his death, aged only 37, in 1520.

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Praised for its expert insight, Renaissance Quarterly regards La Malfa as a brilliant guide through Raphael's creative dialogue with classicism. The Evening Standard highlights it as a fascinating study commemorating the artist's 500th death anniversary, shedding new light on his work with an engaging surprise. Critics commend La Malfa's deep knowledge of Renaissance Rome and Raphael's stylistic innovations inspired by ancient remains.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781789141504

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 03 February 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Reaktion Books

Illustration: 71 illustrations, 66 in colour

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 304

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About the Author

Claudia La Malfa teaches History of Art at the Loyola University Chicago in Rome, and is Visiting Lecturer at the University of Kent. Her previous publications include Pintoricchio a Roma. La seduzione dell’antico (2009).