Artist: Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520)
Title: God Created the sun and the Moon
Medium: Antique engraving on laid paper after the original by master engraver Nicolas Chaperon (French, 1612 – 1656).
Signature: Signed in the plate, lower left.
Dimensions: Image Size 7 5/8 x 12 3/4 inches
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 15 5/8 x 20 3/4 inches
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
God made the two great lights, the greater one to govern the day, and the lesser one to govern the night, and the stars. God set them in the dome of the sky, to illuminate the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. ~Genesis 1:16
Raphael, Italian in full Raffaello Sanzio or Raffaello Santi was a master painter and architect of the Italian High Renaissance. Raphael is best known for his Madonnas and for his large figure compositions in the Vatican. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur.