Where can you see Raphael in Madrid?

At the Museo del Prado: The Cardinal and The Holy Family with a Lamb. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

What is Raphael's most famous work in Madrid?

The Cardinal, of about 1510 to 1511, at the Museo del Prado. A young cardinal in red, half length, with a cool, watchful face. His name is not known for certain.

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?

Several of his paintings came to Spain in the collections of the Habsburg kings. Raphael was an Italian painter, of the High Renaissance.

Painter, 1483 to 1520

Raphael

Raphael's paintings came to Spain with the Habsburg collections, and the Prado keeps them: a cardinal in red who looks straight at you, and a Holy Family painted when he was twenty-four.

Born: 1483, Urbino, Italy
Died: 1520, Rome, Italy
Movement: High Renaissance
In Madrid: 2 works in 1 museum

Where to see Raphael in Madrid

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

Museo del Prado2 works

The Cardinal
about 1510 to 1511
A young cardinal in red, half length, with a cool, watchful face. His name is not known for certain.
The Holy Family with a Lamb
1507
The Christ Child astride a lamb, held by the Virgin, with Saint Joseph leaning on his staff, in a landscape of the kind Raphael learned in Florence.

The life of Raphael

Raphael was born in Urbino in 1483, the son of a court painter, and learned from Perugino and then, in Florence, from Leonardo and Michelangelo. In 1508 the pope called him to Rome to paint the rooms of the Vatican, among them the School of Athens. He ran a large workshop, designed buildings and tapestries, and was courteous to everyone, which Michelangelo never forgave.

He died in Rome in 1520 after a short illness and was buried in the Pantheon. For three hundred years after, he was the painter every art student was told to copy.

What to know

Several of his paintings came to Spain in the collections of the Habsburg kings

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

Raphael: common questions

Where can you see Raphael in Madrid?: At the Museo del Prado: The Cardinal and The Holy Family with a Lamb. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.
What is Raphael's most famous work in Madrid?: The Cardinal, of about 1510 to 1511, at the Museo del Prado. A young cardinal in red, half length, with a cool, watchful face. His name is not known for certain.
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?: Several of his paintings came to Spain in the collections of the Habsburg kings. Raphael was an Italian painter, of the High Renaissance.