2018-01-17-noticia-FYL-fernando-marias

"The Last Raphael: Architectures and Paintings" was the degree scroll of the second session of the Prado Museum'slecture series , which this year, in its second edition, focuses on "The Age of Genius (16th century)". The speaker, the Full Professor of Art History at the Autonomous University of Madrid, Fernando Marías, addressed the figure of "the last Raphael, who is the one we have been able to perceive in a more novel way thanks to the restoration work," he said, making reference letter to the latest restorations of some of the frescoes of the Vatican, which help to discover games of backlighting in the paintings of the Italian Renaissance artist.

It is in the year 1513 when we can place the latter Raphael, an artist who combined, combined and integrated his facet as a painter and architect, being a court artist capable of re-founding classical painting. His rivalry with other referents of the time, such as Michelangelo or Leonardo, did not prevent him from appropriating some of their characteristics.

In a detailed tour of Raphael's final works, which included the Vatican Rooms, the Chigi Chapel in the Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo and the Villa Madama, Professor Marias provided several keys to understanding the work of the artist from Urbino, who also showed other paintings in the genres of portraiture and mythology.

The next session of this series will take place on Tuesday, January 23, and will be given by Leticia Ruiz, head of department of Spanish Painting of the Renaissance and Early Naturalism, Museo del Prado, who will speak on "El Greco, paradigm of genius".