Where can you see Raphael in Florence?

At the Uffizi Gallery: Madonna of the Goldfinch and Agnolo and Maddalena Doni. At the Pitti Palace, Palatine Gallery: Madonna of the Chair and La Velata. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

What is Raphael's most famous work in Florence?

Madonna of the Goldfinch, of about 1505 to 1506, at the Uffizi Gallery. The Virgin with the infant Christ and the young Baptist, who holds out a small bird. Painted as a wedding present for a friend. When the friend's house collapsed in 1547 the panel broke into seventeen pieces.

When and where was Raphael born?

On 6 April 1483, at Urbino, Italy. Raphael died on 6 April 1520, at Rome, Italy, aged about 37.

What is Raphael known for?

Worked in Florence from 1504 to 1508. The Pitti Palace has about eleven of his paintings. The Madonna of the Goldfinch was broken into pieces in 1547 and put back together. Raphael was an Italian painter, of the High Renaissance.

Painter, 1483 to 1520

Raphael

Raphael arrived in Florence in 1504, at twenty-one, to see what Leonardo and Michelangelo were doing. He left four years later able to do it himself, and the city has the Madonnas and portraits that show him learning.

Born: 1483, Urbino, Italy
Died: 1520, Rome, Italy
Movement: High Renaissance
In Florence: 4 works in 2 museums

Where to see Raphael in Florence

Each work with the museum it hangs in. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

Uffizi Gallery2 works

Madonna of the Goldfinch
about 1505 to 1506
The Virgin with the infant Christ and the young Baptist, who holds out a small bird. Painted as a wedding present for a friend. When the friend's house collapsed in 1547 the panel broke into seventeen pieces.
Agnolo and Maddalena Doni
about 1504 to 1507
A cloth merchant and his young wife, painted as a pair. Her pose is taken straight from the Mona Lisa, which Raphael had seen in Leonardo's studio.

Pitti Palace, Palatine Gallery2 works

Madonna of the Chair
about 1513 to 1514
A round picture filled to the edge by the mother, the child and the little Baptist, painted in Rome. It was for long one of the most copied paintings in Europe.
La Velata
about 1516
A woman in a veil and a great sleeve of white silk, one hand on her heart. She is thought to be the woman he loved.

The life of Raphael

Raphael was born in Urbino in 1483 and trained with Perugino. In Florence he painted a series of Madonnas for the city's merchants, each a new solution to the same group of mother and children, and the portraits of a wool merchant and his wife that now hang in the Uffizi.

In 1508 the pope called him to Rome, where he stayed until his death in 1520. The later pictures in the Pitti Palace came to Florence through the Medici.

What to know

Worked in Florence from 1504 to 1508
The Pitti Palace has about eleven of his paintings
The Madonna of the Goldfinch was broken into pieces in 1547 and put back together

Born: 6 April 1483, Urbino, Italy
Died: 6 April 1520, Rome, Italy

Raphael: common questions

Where can you see Raphael in Florence?: At the Uffizi Gallery: Madonna of the Goldfinch and Agnolo and Maddalena Doni. At the Pitti Palace, Palatine Gallery: Madonna of the Chair and La Velata. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.
What is Raphael's most famous work in Florence?: Madonna of the Goldfinch, of about 1505 to 1506, at the Uffizi Gallery. The Virgin with the infant Christ and the young Baptist, who holds out a small bird. Painted as a wedding present for a friend. When the friend's house collapsed in 1547 the panel broke into seventeen pieces.
When and where was Raphael born?: On 6 April 1483, at Urbino, Italy. Raphael died on 6 April 1520, at Rome, Italy, aged about 37.
What is Raphael known for?: Worked in Florence from 1504 to 1508. The Pitti Palace has about eleven of his paintings. The Madonna of the Goldfinch was broken into pieces in 1547 and put back together. Raphael was an Italian painter, of the High Renaissance.