10/23/2026
The Virgin with the Pomegranate " 1504
Is a drawing by Italian Renaissance artist Raffaello Sanzio
At Albertina Museum, Vienna
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio)
Urbino 1483 - Rome 1520
Raphael has always been recognized as one of the greatest artists of the High Renaissance in Italy. In his short life he was acclaimed as a painter, designer and architect, and worked for two of the greatest patrons of his time, Popes Julius II and Leo X. At the origins of his enormous success were his artistic heritage and constant study.
Raphael received his first artistic instruction from his father, the painter Giovanni Santi. Around 1500, Raphael began apprenticing with the Umbrian master Pietro Perugino, and in 1504 he moved to Florence, where he studied the works of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. Around this time, he began his first important series of Madonna paintings and drawings...