Artist: Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino) (Italian, 1483-1520)
Title: Allegorical Figure of Poetry (Poesia)
Medium: Antique Vatican engraving on laid paper after the original by master engraver Amand Durand (1831-1905).
Dimensions: Image Size 6 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 16 x 17 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
A winged woman, Poetry personified, sitting on a throne of clouds, holding a lyre in her left arm and a closed book in her right, flanking her are two genii holding tablets.
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.